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   dxf  writes:   
   > When someone begins with the line it rarely ends well:   
   > "Twenty years ago anarchy threatened floating-point arithmetic."   
   > One floating-point to rule them all.   
      
   This gives a good perspective on posits:   
      
   https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~demmel/ma221_Fall20/Dinechin_etal_2019.pdf   
      
   Floating point arithmetic in the 1960s (before my time) was really in a   
   terrible state.  Kahan has written about it.  Apparently IBM 360   
   floating point arithmetic had to be redesigned after the fact, because   
   the original version had such weird anomalies.   
      
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