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Software implementation of the Posit floating point format

5 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 1 story, 4 comments · first 2025-10-30 · latest 2026-05-30

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  1. …about a new design, to complement if not replace IEEE in the long term. Posits are an example https://github.com/andrepd/posit-rust
    comment by andrepd · 2026-05-30 · in Floor and Ceil versus Denormals on CPU and GPU
  2. …industry could settle on a better alternative which avoids many of the flaws with IEEE floats. [0] https://github.com/andrepd/posit-rust
    comment by andrepd · 2026-05-20 · in RISC-V and Floating-Point
  3. …solve. It's quite interesting: I've got an implementation in rust here if you want to play with it https://github.com/andrepd/posit-rust
    comment by andrepd · 2026-04-04 · in Herbie: Automatically improve imprecise floating point formulas
  4. https://github.com/andrepd/posit-rust LLVM codegen has been almost always sufficient, but for a routine that essentially amounts to adding two fixed-size bigints (e.g. 1024-bit ints represented as `[u64; 16]`), codegen was very very bad.…
    comment by andrepd · 2025-12-04 · in Addressing the adding situation
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    Show HN: Fast-posit, sw implementation of posit arithmetic in Rust
    story by andrepd · 2025-10-30 · 0 comments