Very interesting. This may be a fundamental improvement in crunching. Just goes to show that one should never completely accept a standard merely because it is a standard.
Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 27, 2016, at 9:36 PM, 'Jon Hough' via Chat <[email protected]> wrote: > > This interview is pretty interesting, about a new number format that will > solve floating point related errors: > http://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=2913029 > > see also: > http://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-new-number-format-for-computers-could-nuke-approximation-errors-for-good > > I wonder about a J implementation of unums... ...it seems Julia (among > others) has one > https://github.com/REX-Computing/unumjl > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
