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.

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