Implement the "unum" representation in D ?

[bearophile]

Slide 6:

>Even the IEEE standard (1985) made choices that look dubious now<

On the other hand it's still working surprisingly well today.


> Negative zero. (ugh!)

It's not bad.


Slide 15: are (Page Rank and) mp3 Players using floating point 
values?


Slide 18: "is harder than doing THIS with them?" Hardware 
multiplication uses a different algorithm.


Regarding the variable length of his FP numbers, their energy 
savings are beer-based numbers, I don't think they have any 
experimental basis (yet).

Bye,
bearophile