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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