On Friday, 15 September 2017 at 03:49:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/UnumSORN.pdf
Prof Kahan, who pretty much invented IEEE 754 floating point
arithmetic, debunks unums. Unums pop up now and then with "why
don't we support them?"
The bottom line is there is no magic solution to floating point
problems. Unums just trade one set of problems for another.
Prof. Gustafson refutes the critique on this one paper during a
debate with Prof. Kahan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZAeZBVAzVw
It seems to me unums are a nice design to make floating point
computation accessible to more. It does not solve all problems,
but it does not need to to improve the situation.
