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Subject: Re: Making Lemonade (Floating-point format changes)
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On 5/20/2024 12:58 PM, MitchAlsup1 wrote:
> BGB wrote:
> 
>> On 5/20/2024 7:36 AM, Michael S wrote:
>>>
>>> For subnormal x subnormal you don't need result of multiplication at
>>> all. All you need to know is if it's zero or not and what sign.
>>> Even that is needed only in non-default rounding modes and for inexact
>>> flag in default mode.
>>>
> 
>> For most non-tiny formats, the seeming advantage of subnormal numbers 
>> seems small, in any case.
> 
> There is, it is called Posit (or UNUM depending).
> No subnormals, wider range then IEEE, more precision than IEEE (most of 
> the time). Whether it is better overall is still a matter of debate. It 
> is harder to implement than IEEE but
> just barely.
[...]

I remember wanting to plot deep fractal zooms using Posit's! Never got 
around to it.