To do it without clipping or adding more bits to the
bit array, I was suggesting having the bar of 1s slide
to the left logarithmically as the scaler number its
representing increases linearly. That way it becomes
increasingly more difficult for the row of 1s to reach
the maximum level, but this might be at the risk of
having bits that are very rarely or never used in the
bit array. It would allow a larger range of numbers
to be represented without adding more bits in the array.
Patrick
On Aug 1, 2013, at 12:50 PM, Fergal Byrne wrote:
Hi Patrick,
Yes, that's correct, but we seem to be already doing that at the
sensory level (or in the sensory processing in the thalamus). After
all, that's where the idea of decibels came from - that humans
measure amplitudes logarithmically by default.
What we're talking about is how you encode a scalar (whether
converted to decibels or not) into a bit array for the CLA.
Regards,
Fergal Byrne
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