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An encoding scheme to store a floating point value in as few bytes as possible.

7 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2019-07-21 · latest 2023-03-16

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  1. …been in development for 5 years. This one has been slow because of all the support projects such as https://github.com/kstenerud/compact-float and https://github.com/kstenerud/compact-time and https://github.com/kstenerud/enctool…
    comment by kstenerud · 2023-03-16 · in Ask HN: How long does it take for you to release your open source project?
  2. …[2] https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding/blob/master/cb... [3] https://github.com/kstenerud/compact-float/blob/master/compa... [4] https://github.com/kstenerud/compact-time/blob/master/compac...
    comment by kstenerud · 2021-05-08 · in The Byte Order Fiasco
  3. …layers correctly, it should be pretty thin. [1] https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding [2] https://github.com/kstenerud/compact-float [3] https://github.com/kstenerud/compact-time [4] https://github.com/kstenerud/streamux
    comment by kstenerud · 2020-01-29 · in Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?
  4. …ultimately decimal float needs to replace binary float in future. It's definitely worth learning. https://github.com/kstenerud/compact-float/blob/master/compa...
    comment by kstenerud · 2020-01-23 · in Float Toy
  5. …[3] https://github.com/kstenerud/streamux [4] https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding [5] https://github.com/kstenerud/compact-float [6] https://github.com/kstenerud/compact-time [7] https://github.com/kstenerud/varpad [8]…
    comment by kstenerud · 2019-12-11 · in FUSE for macOS is no longer open source
  6. …[2] https://github.com/kstenerud/Crash-Manager [3] https://github.com/kstenerud/musashi/ [4] https://github.com/kstenerud/compact-float [5] https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-binary-encoding
    comment by kstenerud · 2019-11-07 · in Start before you think you’re ready
  7. …format I developed for data communication), but with 2 more bits because I use them for sizing. [1] https://github.com/kstenerud/compact-float/blob/master/compa...
    comment by kstenerud · 2019-07-21 · in Intel Prepares to Graft Google’s Bfloat16 onto Processors