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		an1sotropy on Oct 30, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (1... I'd heard of posits before but hadn't been motivated to learn about them until your comment; thanks. Reminds me of CIDR for IPv4

adgjlsfhk1 on Oct 30, 2021 [–]

IMO, 8 and 16 bit posits are way better than the float equivalents, but for 32 and 64 bits, floating point math is easier to analyze.

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