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Beyond IEEE754 Floating Point: Next Generation Computer Arithmetic

A new data type posit for direct drop-in replacement for IEEE754.
- Simpler hardware implementation from 2 to thousands of bits.
- Larger dynamic range, higher accuracy, better closure under arithmetic operations, and simpler exception-handling
- Unlike unum arithmetic, posits do not require interval-type mathematics or variable size operands, and they round if an answer is inexact, much the way floats do.

Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP0Y1uAA-2Y
Slides: http://web.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/170201-slides.pdf
YouTube Stanford Seminar: Beyond Floating Point: Next Generation Computer Arithmetic EE380: Computer Systems Colloquium Seminar Beyond Floating Point: Next-Generation Computer Arithmetic Speaker: John L. Gustafson, National University of Singapore A new data type called a "posit" is designed for direct drop-in replacement for IEEE Standard…
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