Implement the "unum" representation in D ?

[Francesco Cattoglio]

On Friday, 21 February 2014 at 19:12:39 UTC, Frustrated wrote:
> Simply not true. Maple, for example, uses constants and can
> compute using constants.
You are mixing symbolic calculus and numerical computations. The 
two are completely unrelated.
> Basically the benefit of this(and potential) outweigh the cost 
> of
> 1 bit out of 64-bits.
Unless I'm completely mistaken, what you are proposing is 
basically creating a tagged union type. It's pretty much 
unrelated from the "unum" proposed by the PDF.