Julia Evansfloating point representation
Nathan Stocks@b0rk Ooo, can you do one for posits?
https://www.sigarch.org/posit-a-potential-replacement-for-ieee-754/
@nathanstocks @b0rk interesting format. I hadn't heard about that before.
How does posit distinguish between positive and negative infinity?
The exponent and fraction do not appear to use the same encoding as the regime number. How does one determine the respective lengths of these fields?
What do you do about computations that result in numbers that posit cannot represent, i.e. NaNs in floating point?
How does posit distinguish between positive and negative infinity?
The exponent and fraction do not appear to use the same encoding as the regime number. How does one determine the respective lengths of these fields?
What do you do about computations that result in numbers that posit cannot represent, i.e. NaNs in floating point?
@arildsen I seriously didn't mean to hijack this pretty floating point infographic thread. š It looks like this wikipedia article is a great jumping off point for learning about posits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unum_(number_format)