Something new under the sun? Tangentially related, but I thought this was interesting. The Model T ROM uses 32-bit single precision and 64-bit double precision floats. A software posits ROM library could produce big speed and space improvements.
https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/07/08/new-approach-could-sink-floating-point-computation/ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2018/04/11/anatomy-of-a-posit-number/ -- John.
