Unum is a number representation system that is a superset of IEEE integers and IEEE floats which avoids many problems (especially in floating point arithmetic) as it has no rounding, no overflow to infinity, no underflow to zero, and is safe to parallelize.
I was wondering if anyone has implemented or is interested in implementing this in Clojure/ClojureScript (or Java/JavaScript)? There is an existing reference implementation written in Mathematica and it appears a port has already been done to Python: https://github.com/jrmuizel/pyunum For more details of unum see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN9L7TpMxeA https://www.crcpress.com/The-End-of-Error-Unum-Computing/Gustafson/9781482239867 http://arith22.gforge.inria.fr/slides/06-gustafson.pdf -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
