interesting links2017-02-06T13:54:06+01:00https://roland.iwasno.net/links/https://roland.iwasno.net/links/https://roland.iwasno.net/links/DebateTranscription - DebateTranscription.pdfhttps://roland.iwasno.net/links/?jZJ27g2017-02-06T13:54:06+01:00Transcription of “The Great Debate”: <br />
John Gustafson vs. William Kahan on Unum Arithmetic <br />
Held July 12, 2016<br>(<a href="https://roland.iwasno.net/links/?jZJ27g">Permalink</a>)Dr. John L. Gustafson: Publicationshttps://roland.iwasno.net/links/?GT01BA2016-08-02T17:30:36+02:00Written by one of the foremost experts in high-performance computing and the inventor of Gustafson's Law, The End of Error: Unum Computing explains a new approach to computer arithmetic: the universal number (unum). The unum encompasses all IEEE floating-point formats as well as fixed-point and exact integer arithmetic. This new number type obtains more accurate answers than floating-point arithmetic yet uses fewer bits in many cases, saving memory, bandwidth, energy, and power.<br>(<a href="https://roland.iwasno.net/links/?GT01BA">Permalink</a>)