Just to point out, the OP claimed the number format has no rounding or precision problems, which is not possible. Think about ways to represent pi for a bit!
-Jason On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 5:51 PM, James Elliott <brunch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Heh! I just read about these in an email from ACM, and found your post by > searching this Group for UNUM. It looks like not yet, but perhaps we should > do something about that? > > The article which excited me: > http://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=2913029 > > > On Friday, November 6, 2015 at 8:23:35 AM UTC-6, Richard Davies wrote: >> >> Unum is a number representation system that is a superset of IEEE >> integers and IEEE floats which avoids many problems (especially in floating >> point arithmetic) as it has no rounding, no overflow to infinity, no >> underflow to zero, and is safe to parallelize. >> >> I was wondering if anyone has implemented or is interested in >> implementing this in Clojure/ClojureScript (or Java/JavaScript)? >> >> There is an existing reference implementation written in Mathematica and >> it appears a port has already been done to Python: >> https://github.com/jrmuizel/pyunum >> >> For more details of unum see >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN9L7TpMxeA >> >> https://www.crcpress.com/The-End-of-Error-Unum-Computing/Gustafson/9781482239867 >> http://arith22.gforge.inria.fr/slides/06-gustafson.pdf >> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
