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		bee_rider on Oct 9, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Addition is all you need for energy-efficient lang... Interesting… I guess it must be biased, m2^ee would leave like half of the limited space wasted, so 1.m2^ee? I always wonder with these tiny formats if 0 should even be represented…

wruza on Oct 9, 2024 [–]

I’m not a binary guy that much, but iirc all floats are 1.m*2^e — “1.” is always there except for subnormals. There’s also SEEE FP4 which is basically +-2^([u?]int3).

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