On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 6:26 PM Bradley Lucier <[email protected]> wrote:
64-bit floating-point arithmetic, so conversion routines for these > formats cannot be generated by the macros > macro-make-representation->double and macro-make-double->representation > in the sample implementation. > Well, it's good to have the prospect of a standardized format, and it's understandable that killing 14 NaNs (8 8 mantissa values * 2 signs - 2 values for infinities) doesn't seem like the Right Thing when you only have 256 to play with. Of course when the mantissa is bigger the wastage is even worse.
