Add support for `unums/posits`, a new floating point format
vshymanskyy opened this issue · 0 comments
vshymanskyy commented
Posit is a number format that is similar to IEEE 754 format (floating point numbers).
The Posit Standard (2022) has been ratified by the Posit Working Group: https://posithub.org
The idea is to add a new posit
tag that can apply to u8
, u16
and u32
typed values and arrays, which are then treated as the corresponding Posits
.
Also, this could be a good opportunity to add support for arbitrary-precision floats, but is there a rationale?