Why a Chip That’s Bad at Math Can Help Computers Tackle Harder Problems (opens in new tab)

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12 pointsmarinabercea9y ago1 comments

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j-pb9y ago

Floating point is already incredibly imprecise. The thought of debugging any piece of software on this system sends shivers down my spine.

I would much rather see something like UNUMS (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9943589), which provide improved accuracy AND energy efficiency over IEEE floating point.

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j-pb9y ago

Floating point is already incredibly imprecise. The thought of debugging any piece of software on this system sends shivers down my spine.

I would much rather see something like UNUMS (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9943589), which provide improved accuracy AND energy efficiency over IEEE floating point.

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