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		pvillano on May 13, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Exploring the native use of 64-bit posit arithmeti... Does "common" hardware support nonstandard exponent lengths for floats?

Dylan16807 on May 13, 2023 [–]

Only a few, like bfloat, but common hardware doesn't support nonstandard total lengths either.

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