Slide 6:
Even the IEEE standard (1985) made choices that look dubious now<
On the other hand it's still working surprisingly well today.
Negative zero. (ugh!)
It's not bad.
Slide 15: are (Page Rank and) mp3 Players using floating point
values?
Slide 18: "is harder than doing THIS with them?" Hardware
multiplication uses a different algorithm.
Regarding the variable length of his FP numbers, their energy
savings are beer-based numbers, I don't think they have any
experimental basis (yet).
Bye,
bearophile
