Implement the "unum" representation in D ?

Nick B via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Feb 20 15:38:52 PST 2016


On Saturday, 20 February 2016 at 23:25:40 UTC, Nick B wrote:
> On Wednesday, 17 February 2016 at 16:35:41 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 17 February 2016 at 08:11:21 UTC, Nick B wrote:

>
> Having just looked at the slides again, I believe this will 
> break compatibility with std.math, (for example it throws out 
> NaN), just as D has broken full compatibility with all of C++.

UNUM II  is also proposing to break completely from IEEE 754 
floats and gain Computation with mathematical rigor .......
>
> Can anyone tell me who are the maths experts, and hard science 
> users, around here ?
>
>
> Nick




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