Unums.jl
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tbreloff
Unum (Universal Number) types and operations
Following up on tonight's call, I wanted to make a quick review of my design decisions to date, and go over some likely extensions to the basic design. I want...
Possible reason: WARNING: julia is fixed at 0.3.11 conflicting with requirement for Unums: [0.4.0-,∞) Perhaps this could be fixed by modifying .travis.yml .
Open topic... what are your thoughts on Unums? Where are they useful? When not? Anything goes...
I'm adding this issue as a holding place for discussing details of the implementation. I might put things here as I'm considering them... that way people can jump in and...
Lets discuss the relative merits of different formulations that decimal unums could take. Below, `e` is the binary value of the exponent, `f` is the binary value of the "fraction"....
In Gustafson's book (End of Errors), he proposes the basic unum: ``` | signbit | exponent | fraction | ubit | esize-1 | fsize-1 | ``` Discuss: is there a...