Implement the "unum" representation in D ?

[Nic Brummell via Digitalmars-d]

If anyone is still interested in this concept whatsoever, we are 
holding a mini-workshop on the current developments of Unums at 
the University of California Santa Cruz on Oct 24th.  We'd love 
to have some participation from interested parties, including 
presentations on any attempts to implement (in D?) etc.  Please 
see https://systems.soe.ucsc.edu/2016-symposium or contact me via 
here.  Nic.


On Saturday, 20 February 2016 at 23:38:52 UTC, Nick B wrote:
> 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