On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 8:41 PM, Gareth McCaughan < gareth.mccaughan@pobox.com> wrote:
On 28/03/2017 01:13, W. Edwin Clark wrote:
[Mike Speciner:]
Is there a write-up of posits that actually specifies how the regime bits
work--I couldn't really tell from the Gustafson slides. Is there a parameter besides the total number of bits that needs to be specified?
[WEC:]
It should be in this book: The End of Error: Unum Computing
Are you sure? Posits are not the exact same thing as unums.
No I'm not sure. I haven't been following the discussion carefully. The book is apparently a "recent" ("revolutionary" <https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1482239868?keywords=the%20end%20of%20error%20unum%20computing&qid=1456088488&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1>) book by the author of the slides. http://johngustafson.net/ I figured mistakenly that it would cover the details of his talk. I just downloaded a copy of the book. A search for "posits" in the book finds nothing. The book carries the date 2015, but in the slides posits (simoid unums?) are given a date of 2017.