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Investigate arbitrary precision for float 16 #208

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PhilipDeegan opened this issue Mar 7, 2018 · 5 comments
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Investigate arbitrary precision for float 16 #208

PhilipDeegan opened this issue Mar 7, 2018 · 5 comments
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GMP / MPFR exists but I believe I designed for linux

libbf seems good and cross platform
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libbf is not so good for small values

instead we're (Hiyu) looking at this

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Mbompr commented Jun 26, 2018

Does this work with vectorization?

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it should work at least aswell as float32 - but it's to be investigated

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if a math person would like to support me with this it would be appreciated, I dunno wtf a mantissa is

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#308

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