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by sakras 1326 days ago
I first thought this was an announcement about how R now uses Posits instead of IEEE-754 floats… I wonder if the rebrand will cause any confusion for either party down the line.
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Yeah, I was wondering why they’re renaming to the name of a numerical data type. I posit that the name will cause confusion. :)