v/programming: UNUM - New number format alternative to Float - John Gustafson the inventor of Gustafsons Law explains the advantages of his new discovery.

UNUM - New number format alternative to Float - John Gustafson the inventor of Gustafsons Law explains the advantages of his new discovery.

1 23 Jul 2015 18:33 by u/Caboose_Calloway

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0 u/Caboose_Calloway [OP] 23 Jul 2015 18:33

"Written by one of the foremost experts in high-performance computing and the inventor of Gustafson’s Law, The End of Error: Unum Computing explains a new approach to computer arithmetic: the universal number (unum). The unum encompasses all IEEE floating-point formats as well as fixed-point and exact integer arithmetic. This new number type obtains more accurate answers than floating-point arithmetic yet uses fewer bits in many cases, saving memory, bandwidth, energy, and power."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gustafson_%28scientist%29

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