Ah, that sounds good. So I should just fork Tom's package, copy the 
document we have so far into the wiki, then make a pull request?

On Friday, 31 July 2015 17:01:57 UTC+2, Waldir Pimenta wrote:
>
> A github wiki in the Unums.jl package would seem ideal. You get the 
> "anyone can edit" feature, with accountability of who made each edit 
> (github wikis are git repos, and to make edits people need to have a github 
> account) and easy reversal of eventual bad changes.
>
> On Friday, July 31, 2015 at 3:41:36 PM UTC+1, Job van der Zwan wrote:
>>
>> Hey Tom,
>>
>> Well, I could change the setting to "anyone with the link can edit" - we 
>> risk vandalism in that case, but as long as we keep the document link to 
>> here the risk is minimal.
>>
>> On Friday, 31 July 2015 15:43:06 UTC+2, Tom Breloff wrote:
>>>
>>> I added some info to the readme at https://github.com/tbreloff/Unums.jl.  
>>> I talk a little bit about how I'm intending to build the package, the 
>>> available types, etc.  There is also a stub issue for continuing the 
>>> discussion of how unums fit into the world of numerical analysis: 
>>> https://github.com/tbreloff/Unums.jl/issues/2.  I'd love collaboration 
>>> from anyone that wants to help implement some of the conversion functions 
>>> and operations.  I don't claim to be an authority on floating point 
>>> arithmetic, so any and all comments are welcome.
>>>
>>> Job: Any chance you can move your google doc to a wiki or something more 
>>> accessible?  I'm happy to include it in my package if you want.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 6:51 PM, Job van der Zwan <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thursday, 30 July 2015 00:33:52 UTC+2, Job van der Zwan wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW, Tom, I was already working on a summary of the book (on an IJulia 
>>>>> notebook). I'm on mobile right now so don't have access to it, but I can 
>>>>> share it later. I think something like that might be useful to attract 
>>>>> more 
>>>>> collaborators - we can't expect everyone to read it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ok, so since Tom is already working on a package, I moved my 
>>>> summary-in-progress to Google Drive where it's easier for people to leave 
>>>> comments:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d36_ppKeZDuYRadLm9-Ty8Ai2XZE5MS5bwIuEKBJ1WE/edit?usp=sharing
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>> For others who have read the book, please correct any errors or 
>>>> misunderstandings on my part that you see. Expanding sections is also 
>>>> encouraged :P
>>>>
>>>> Right now it's very bare-bones (since the meat is what you *can do* with 
>>>> unums, not the definition of the format itself), but I'll hopefully get 
>>>> around to expanding it a bit in the coming weeks.
>>>>
>>>
>>>

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