| ▲ | thekoma 4 hours ago | |
Nice! I am interested in how the arithmetic you implemented differs from the IEEE 1788 Standard for Interval Arithmetic (and how the two linked papers relate to it). To address the challenges you mention, did you have to start from scratch or was it something that can build on top of the IEEE standard? | ||
| ▲ | fouronnes3 4 hours ago | parent [-] | |
Interesting! I'm not familiar with IEEE 1788. The TypeScript library (not-so-float) that I wrote which powers the calculator uses the JS Number type which is double precision IEEE 754. Outward rounding is not supported by JS so I used a bit level manipulation hack by casting to TypedArray [0] to implement the equivalent of C's nextafter() function. Otherwise I mostly followed Hickey & van Emden paper which is really delightful [1]. The real hard work is actually generating all the test cases. Good luck getting 100% test coverage on interval division! [0] https://github.com/victorpoughon/not-so-float/blob/main/src/... [1] https://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/S62.12/docs/Hickey_interval.... | ||