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by sundarurfriend 3076 days ago
> “Apparatus for Calculating and Retaining a Bound on Error During Floating Point Operations and Methods Thereof”

It seems to be a system where the hardware design itself keeps track of the accuracy losses in floating point calculations, and provides them as part of the value itself.

The title is (predictably) exaggerated, but it's an interesting idea, and could potentially be a significant improvement in particular use cases.