Implement the "unum" representation in D ?

[Frustrated]

On Friday, 21 February 2014 at 19:59:36 UTC, Francesco Cattoglio
wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I mentioned that would could extend floating points to
include other representations that are more efficient and reduce
errors and such.