Tom Breloff

Based on discussion in issue #1, I decided to add back the esize/fsize fields and move the signbit back to the left, to match the book. This should be easy...

For reference regarding the standard floats: ``` julia> nbitsneeded(x) = (for i in 0:10; if 2^i >= x; return i; end; end; error()) nbitsneeded (generic function with 1 method) julia>...

Maybe this will help... suppose this is the representation of zero for a {4,5} environment: ``` julia> c.zero bits: 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 | 0 | 0000000000000000 | 00000000000000000000000000000000 | 0 | 0000...

@ScottPJones: So that we don't hijack this conversation with decimal unums, please see issue #4 that I created, and lets discuss possible decimal unum representations there.

@JohnLGustafson: I'm very curious on your thoughts from my last post, as this decision makes a big difference in implementation, and I'll likely want to commit to one or the...

You're right... I thought you were implicitly talking about decimal unums since you were talking about database storage. As for compression (which is what you were asking about): yes the...

Can you expand on this? I'm not a travis expert. Do I need to change ``` julia: - release - nightly ``` to ``` julia: - nightly ``` ?

See the nnet/data.jl source file... I'm using the idea of fixed arrays of DataPoint objects, and wrappers which access the arrays in different ways. I haven't benchmarked completely, though. >...