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by dnautics 3982 days ago
I think the correct answer is (0,inf) which is a value you can get by dropping to a lower resolution within the same unum environment.
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Ah, that makes sense. The 4-bit representations do not suffice by themselves, but imply the support of some or all of the smaller representations as well, and I guess you always need a representation for [-inf,inf].