From: minforth@gmx.net   
      
   Am 11.07.2025 um 05:17 schrieb Paul Rubin:   
   > 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   
   >   
      
   Quintessence:   
      
   Overburdened or incompetent programmers  +   
   Posits are tricky beasts  ==>   
   Programmers _need_ AI co-workers to avoid pitfalls   
      
   Modern times....   
      
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