Re: [music-dsp] Anyone using unums?

2016-04-15 Thread Ethan Duni
mplements this stuff... Ethan D On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 1:24 PM, robert bristow-johnson < r...@audioimagination.com> wrote: > > > ---------------- Original Message > Subject: Re: [music-dsp] Anyone using unums? >

Re: [music-dsp] Anyone using unums?

2016-04-15 Thread robert bristow-johnson
Original Message Subject: Re: [music-dsp] Anyone using unums? From: "Evan Balster" Date: Fri, April 15, 2016 11:46 am To: music-dsp@music.co

Re: [music-dsp] Anyone using unums?

2016-04-15 Thread Evan Balster
This is *really* interesting; thanks for bringing it up and expanding my world a little, Alan. While it's a little difficult to put the concepts here to practice, they have my brain spinning in some new directions. I'm curious as to whether there's some lattice whose operations could be easily an

Re: [music-dsp] Anyone using unums?

2016-04-15 Thread Nathan Ho
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing. There's a lot of interesting theory to unpack here, but I was disappointed by a lack of practical discussion. Floats have their problems, but we've learned to work around them. Modern CPUs let you turn off denormals, and as for "kinks"... have those ever c

Re: [music-dsp] Anyone using unums?

2016-04-14 Thread Nigel Redmon
Interesting, thanks for pointing it out (and yes, your first message made it here—the list is more forgiving about html text formatting these days). > Interesting stuff, so i was curious if anyone here on the list has heard of > them, has used them for dsp, etc? I’m thinking it’s not likely th

[music-dsp] Anyone using unums?

2016-04-14 Thread Alan Wolfe
Apologies if this is a double post. I believe my last email was in HTML format so was likely rejected. I checked the list archives but they seem to have stopped updating as of last year, so posting again in plain text mode! I came across unums a couple weeks back, which seem to be a plausible re

[music-dsp] Anyone using unums?

2016-04-14 Thread Alan Wolfe
I came across unums a couple weeks back, which seem to be a plausibe replacement for floating point (pros and cons to it vs floating point). One interesting thing is that division is that addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are all single flop operations and are on "equal footing".