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It's addressed, but in the wrong way. IEEE 754 has positive and negative infinity for a reason. Why do there have to be 255 zero values? Also, what about roundi
by GyrosOfWar 13y ago
It's addressed, but in the wrong way. IEEE 754 has positive and negative infinity for a reason. Why do there have to be 255 zero values? Also, what about rounding modes? Floating point math is really, really hard and this specification makes it look too easy.
- kzrdude 13y agoThey want to allow fast "addition with equal exponents" in a single cycle and that requires a zero value for each possible exponent.
- GyrosOfWar 13y agoI see, that makes sense.