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Sigmoid Numbers for Julia

5 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2017-02-13 · latest 2021-09-06

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  1. …are correct and have the expected properties (~>5 yr ago, paid gig, actually my first paid gig): https://github.com/interplanetary-robot/SigmoidNumbers/blob/... https://github.com/interplanetary-robot/SigmoidNumbers/blob/... Extremely…
    comment by dnautics · 2021-09-06 · in Progress on C23
  2. …developers are not often in that habit, which is a shame. https://github.com/REX-Computing/unumjl https://github.com/interplanetary-robot/SigmoidNumbers
    comment by dnautics · 2019-02-23 · in Why Julia
  3. here is the spec we drafted a few months ago on exactly what you suggest. https://github.com/interplanetary-robot/SigmoidNumbers/blob/...
    comment by dnautics · 2017-07-01 · in Beating Floating Point at Its Own Game: Posit Arithmetic [pdf]
  4. …https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP0Y1uAA-2Y You can try out sigmoid numbers in julia here: https://github.com/interplanetary-robot/SigmoidNumbers Also, I am working on some verilog implementations, so we may have this in hardware rather…
    comment by dnautics · 2017-03-02 · in How many floating-point numbers are in the interval [0,1]?
  5. …software posit library (which is intentionally strictly binary and not backended by IEEE floats), ( https://github.com/interplanetary-robot/SigmoidNumbers ) I did everything by first inverting negative numbers and doing decode in the…
    comment by dnautics · 2017-02-13 · in Why does e to pi i equal -1? (2015) [video]