Implement the "unum" representation in D ?

Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Sep 15 02:35:34 PDT 2015


On Tuesday, 15 September 2015 at 08:24:30 UTC, ponce wrote:
> However if unum aren't fast, they will be only for prototyping 
> and the real algorithm would rely on IEEE floats with different 
> precision characteristics, so yeah hardware is critical.


I think he is looking into 32 bit floats for a simpler version of 
the concept combined with the "ubox" method (multidimensional 
interval representation that "brute force" the answer). The 
"uboxing" is visualized here:

http://sites.ieee.org/scv-cs/files/2013/03/Right-SizingPrecision1.pdf



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