Re: Parsing timestamps?

dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> 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.