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MitchAlsup1 <mitchalsup@aol.com> schrieb:

> In posits, a quire is an accumulator with as many binary digits
> as to cover max-exponent to min-exponent; so one can accumulate
> an essentially unbounded number of sums without loss of precision
> --to obtain a sum with a single rounding.

Not restricted to posits, I believe (but the term may differ).

At university, I had my programming
courses on a Pascal compiler which implemented
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlsruhe_Accurate_Arithmetic ,
a hardware implementation was on the 4361 as an option
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_4300#High-Accuracy_Arithmetic_Facility