Implement the "unum" representation in D ?

Iain Buclaw ibuclaw at gdcproject.org
Thu Feb 20 14:28:41 PST 2014


On 20 February 2014 15:26, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:
> Slide 6:
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>> Even the IEEE standard (1985) made choices that look dubious now<
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> On the other hand it's still working surprisingly well today.
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>> Negative zero. (ugh!)
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> It's not bad.
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> Slide 15: are (Page Rank and) mp3 Players using floating point values?
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Most encoding formats use a form of discrete cosine transform, which
involves floating point maths.


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