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by adgjlsfhk1 1256 days ago
Also to be clear, unums v1 and v2 were (mostly) dumb ideas that haven't gone anywhere. Unums v3 (aka posits) are a (IMO) really good idea for how to generate a better floating point standard (see https://posithub.org/docs/posit_standard-2.pdf)