[teleforce]

“Nothing brings fear to my heart more than a floating point number.” - Gerald Jay Sussman

Is there any IEEE standards committee working on FP alternative for examples Unum and Posit [1],[2].

[1] Unum & Posit:

https://posithub.org/about

[2] The End of Error:

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-end-of/978148223986...

[kvemkon]

I'm wondering, why there are still no announcements for hardware support of such approaches in CPUs.

[vanderZwan]

Gustavson's last presentation starts with him holding an actual piece of hardware supporting posits, fwiw.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vzVlQhaAZtQ

[kvemkon]

Wow, great! Thanks for pointing this out.

Just found an announcement:

Calligo secures funds to scale POSIT-based chip development (07.04.2025)

https://www.verdict.co.uk/calligo-secures-funds/

[neepi]

HP had proper deterministic decimal arithmetic since the 1970s.

[teleforce]

Any link to that?

[Q6T46nT668w6i3m]

Is this sarcasm? If not, the proposed posit standard, IEEE P3109.

[pclmulqdq]

The current P3109 draft has no posits in it.

[teleforce]

Great, didn't know that it exists.