On Saturday, 12 April 2014 at 21:48:15 UTC, Alix Pexton wrote:
http://dec64.org/
I recently discovered this while watching a presentation by
Doug Crockford on YouTube.
I know that Dlang is not in the category of languages that this
new numeric representation is aimed at, but Dlang might well be
used to implement a VM or compiler for one that is.
I think it is ripe for implementation along the same lines as
half floats.
The reference implementation is on github (linked from the
above) and is marked as public domain but porting the assembler
(or rather the macros) non-trivial with my skill-set.
Anyone else convinced or opposed?
Anyone with more assembler-foo willing to lend a hand to the
porting effort?
A...
I don't quite see the point in this, when there is already a
standard for floating point decimals
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal64_floating-point_format
I really should take a deeper look at this, it might be more
interesting that I am expecting.
