New blog post: "Exact UNORM8 to float" https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2024/11/06/exact-unorm8-to-float/ nobody asked, but here we go.
Exact UNORM8 to float

GPUs support UNORM formats that represent a number inside [0,1] as an 8-bit unsigned integer. In exact arithmetic, the conversion to a floating-point number is straightforward: take the integer and…

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@rygorous oh man I love this and the *3 solution at the end is so much simpler it's the icing on the cake