On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 2:07 PM Peter Bex wrote:
They could be, but Scheme does not really allow for multiple types
> of inexact numbers.
Actually it has no problem with them. There are literals for up to four
separate inexact types, using S, F, D, and L as exponent markers, and
arithmetic
On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 12:25:12PM -0500, Daniel Ortmann wrote:
> I am probably the last to run across this alternate floating point
> format ... but now I am curious.
>
> If these posits were implemented in Chicken, what sort of work would be
> required?
> Would they replace the traditional
I am probably the last to run across this alternate floating point
format ... but now I am curious.
If these posits were implemented in Chicken, what sort of work would be
required?
Would they replace the traditional floats?
Or would they be an optional part of the numeric stack?
