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noosphryesterday at 6:03 PM1 replyview on HN

Balanced ternary fp is not a reduced precision type of binary fp: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10964

>Unlike their binary counterparts, posits and takums, tekums simultaneously accommodate both ∞ and NaR, while retaining the simplicity of negation by flipping the underlying trit string. Perhaps most strikingly, tekums enable rounding by truncation, a property that eradicates at a stroke some notorious problems of rounding in binary arithmetic: double rounding errors, cascading carries in hardware, and the attendant inefficiencies.


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mathisfun123yesterday at 6:44 PM

> Balanced ternary fp is not a reduced precision type of binary fp

Yes I can read very well - can you?

> ... by storing them in the corresponding uint

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