This is very interesting! I'm curious as to how it will compare to Unums, as it seems both Fredrik Johannson's Arb and Unums are trying to fix a lot of the same problems with current floating point.
I'm curious about the Float128 type - this is based on Arb, and doesn't seem to match the IEEE 754 binary128 floating point standard (which has 112 bits of fraction (plus "hidden" 1-bit), 15 bits of exponent + 1 bit sign). Should these maybe be called something else, so as not to cause confusion with the IEEE standard binary floating point types? Do you have any benchmarks comparing these to BigFloats with precision set to 128, 256, 512, 1024 bits? Scott On Thursday, December 31, 2015 at 2:50:55 AM UTC-5, Jeffrey Sarnoff wrote: > > Responding to a suggestion, these types also are available in separate > modules: Floats128.jl <https://github.com/J-Sarnoff/Floats128.jl>, > Floats256.jl <https://github.com/J-Sarnoff/Floats256.jl>, Floats512.jl > <https://github.com/J-Sarnoff/Floats512.jl>, Floats1024.jl > <https://github.com/J-Sarnoff/Floats1024.jl>. >
