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“Nothing brings fear to my heart more than a floating point number.” - Gerald Jay Sussman

Is there any IEEE standards committee working on FP alternative for examples Unum and Posit [1],[2].

[1] Unum & Posit:

[2] The End of Error:

I'm wondering, why there are still no announcements for hardware support of such approaches in CPUs.

HP had proper deterministic decimal arithmetic since the 1970s.

Any link to that?

Gustavson's last presentation starts with him holding an actual piece of hardware supporting posits, fwiw.

Wow, great! Thanks for pointing this out.

Just found an announcement:

Calligo secures funds to scale POSIT-based chip development (07.04.2025)

Is this sarcasm? If not, the proposed posit standard, IEEE P3109.

Great, didn't know that it exists.

The current P3109 draft has no posits in it.