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"cluster": "IntegerFixed", "status": "Verified", "standard": "two complement", "use_case": "DSP, embedded ML", "gf_relation": "competitor", "source": "ISO/IEC 9899" }, { "id": "int32", "name": "INT32 / UINT32", "bits": 32, "s_bits": 1, "e_bits": 0, "m_bits": 31, "bias": 0, "phi_distance": -1.0, "storage": "u32", "cluster": "IntegerFixed", "status": "Verified", "standard": "two complement", "use_case": "general CPU integer", "gf_relation": "competitor", "source": "ISO/IEC 9899" }, { "id": "int64", "name": "INT64 / UINT64", "bits": 64, "s_bits": 1, "e_bits": 0, "m_bits": 63, "bias": 0, "phi_distance": -1.0, "storage": "u64", "cluster": "IntegerFixed", "status": "Verified", "standard": "two complement", "use_case": "databases, timestamps", "gf_relation": "competitor", "source": "ISO/IEC 9899" }, { "id": "int128", "name": "INT128 / UINT128", "bits": 128, "s_bits": 1, "e_bits": 0, "m_bits": 127, "bias": 0, "phi_distance": -1.0, "storage": "u128", "cluster": "IntegerFixed", "status": "Verified", "standard": "two complement", "use_case": "crypto, big-int", "gf_relation": "competitor", "source": "Rust/Clang u128" }, { "id": "q_format", "name": "Q-format (Qm.n)", "bits": 0, "s_bits": 1, "e_bits": 0, "m_bits": 0, "bias": 0, "phi_distance": -1.0, "storage": "varies", "cluster": "IntegerFixed", "status": "Verified", "standard": "TI fixed-point", "use_case": "audio DSP, fixed-point ML", "gf_relation": "orthogonal", "source": "TI SPRA704" }, { "id": "bcd", "name": "BCD (binary-coded decimal)", "bits": 0, "s_bits": 0, "e_bits": 0, "m_bits": 0, "bias": 0, "phi_distance": -1.0, "storage": "u4_per_digit", "cluster": "IntegerFixed", "status": "Historical", "standard": "IBM 1959", "use_case": "calculators, GAAP", "gf_relation": "orthogonal", "source": "ISO/IEC 8859" }, { "id": "ibm_hfp32", "name": "IBM HFP (single)", "bits": 32, "s_bits": 1, "e_bits": 7, "m_bits": 24, "bias": 64, "phi_distance": -1.0, "storage": "u32", "cluster": "HistoricalVendor", "status": "Historical", "standard": "IBM System/360 (1964); base-16 exponent", "use_case": "legacy mainframe", "gf_relation": "orthogonal", "source": "IBM POO" }, { "id": "ibm_hfp64", "name": "IBM HFP (double)", "bits": 64, "s_bits": 1, "e_bits": 7, "m_bits": 56, "bias": 64, "phi_distance": -1.0, "storage": "u64", "cluster": "HistoricalVendor", "status": "Historical", "standard": "IBM System/360 (1964)", "use_case": "legacy mainframe", "gf_relation": "orthogonal", "source": "IBM POO" }, { "id": "ibm_hfp128", "name": "IBM HFP (extended)", "bits": 128, "s_bits": 1, "e_bits": 7, "m_bits": 120, "bias": 64, "phi_distance": -1.0, "storage": "u128", "cluster": "HistoricalVendor", "status": "Historical", "standard": "IBM z/Architecture", "use_case": "legacy mainframe", "gf_relation": "orthogonal", "source": "IBM POO" }, { "id": "ms_mbf32", "name": "Microsoft MBF (single)", "bits": 32, "s_bits": 1, "e_bits": 8, "m_bits": 23, "bias": 129, "phi_distance": -1.0, "storage": "u32", "cluster": "HistoricalVendor", "status": "Historical", "standard": "MS BASIC / MS-DOS (pre-IEEE)", "use_case": "MS BASIC legacy", "gf_relation": "orthogonal", "source": "MS-DOS docs" }, { "id": "ms_mbf64", "name": "Microsoft MBF (double)", "bits": 64, "s_bits": 1, "e_bits": 8, "m_bits": 55, "bias": 129, "phi_distance": -1.0, "storage": "u64", "cluster": "HistoricalVendor", "status": "Historical", "standard": "MS BASIC", "use_case": "MS BASIC legacy", "gf_relation": "orthogonal", "source": "MS-DOS docs" }, { "id": "vax_f", "name": "VAX F-float", "bits": 32, "s_bits": 1, "e_bits": 8, "m_bits": 23, "bias": 128, "phi_distance": -1.0, "storage": "u32", "cluster": "HistoricalVendor", "status": "Historical", "standard": "DEC VAX", "use_case": "DEC legacy", "gf_relation": "orthogonal", "source": "VAX Architecture Reference" }, { "id": "vax_d", "name": "VAX D-float", "bits": 64, "s_bits": 1, "e_bits": 8, "m_bits": 55, "bias": 128, "phi_distance": -1.0, "storage": "u64", "cluster": "HistoricalVendor", "status": "Historical", "standard": "DEC VAX", "use_case": "DEC legacy double", "gf_relation": "orthogonal", "source": "VAX Architecture Reference" }, { "id": "vax_g", "name": "VAX G-float", "bits": 64, "s_bits": 1, "e_bits": 11, "m_bits": 52, "bias": 1024, "phi_distance": -1.0, "storage": "u64", "cluster": "HistoricalVendor", "status": "Historical", "standard": "DEC VAX (IEEE-like)", "use_case": "DEC legacy", "gf_relation": "orthogonal", "source": "VAX Architecture Reference" }, { "id": "vax_h", "name": "VAX H-float", "bits": 128, "s_bits": 1, "e_bits": 15, "m_bits": 112, "bias": 16384, "phi_distance": -1.0, "storage": "u128", "cluster": "HistoricalVendor", "status": "Historical", "standard": "DEC VAX", "use_case": "DEC quad", "gf_relation": "orthogonal", "source": "VAX Architecture Reference" }, { "id": "cray_float", "name": "Cray float", "bits": 64, "s_bits": 1, "e_bits": 15, "m_bits": 48, "bias": 16384, "phi_distance": -1.0, "storage": "u64", "cluster": "HistoricalVendor", "status": "Historical", "standard": "Cray-1 (1976); no NaN/Inf, unrounded mul", "use_case": "Cray legacy", "gf_relation": "orthogonal", "source": "Cray-1 Hardware Reference" }, { "id": "minifloat", "name": "minifloat (arbitrary E:M, <=16 bits)", "bits": 0, "s_bits": 1, "e_bits": 0, "m_bits": 0, "bias": 0, "phi_distance": -1.0, "storage": "varies", "cluster": "Theoretical", "status": "Experimental", "standard": "parametric framework", "use_case": "design space of GF4/GF8/GF12/GF16", "gf_relation": "ally", "source": "Higham 1996" }, { "id": "unum_i", "name": "Unum I (tapered + ubound)", "bits": 0, "s_bits": 1, "e_bits": 0, "m_bits": 0, "bias": 0, "phi_distance": -1.0, "storage": "varies", "cluster": "Theoretical", "status": "Experimental", "standard": "Gustafson 2015 (predecessor to posit)", "use_case": "interval arithmetic", "gf_relation": "ally", "source": "Gustafson 2015 (The End of Error)" }, { "id": "unum_ii", "name": "Unum II (SORN projective)", "bits": 0, "s_bits": 0, "e_bits": 0, "m_bits": 0, "bias": 0, "phi_distance": -1.0, "storage": "lookup_table", "cluster": "Theoretical", "status": "Experimental", "standard": "Gustafson 2016", "use_case": "lookup-table real arithmetic; not GF-comparable", "gf_relation": "orthogonal", "source": "Gustafson 2016" }, { "id": "tapered_fp", "name": "tapered floating point", "bits": 0, "s_bits": 1, "e_bits": 0, "m_bits": 0, "bias": 0, "phi_distance": -1.0, "storage": "varies", "cluster": "Theoretical", "status": "Experimental", "standard": "Morris 1971; posit ancestor", "use_case": "variable mantissa via regime bits", "gf_relation": "ally", "source": "Morris 1971 (IEEE TC)" }, { "id": "block_fp", "name": "block floating point (BFP)", "bits": 0, "s_bits": 0, "e_bits": 0, "m_bits": 0, "bias": 0, "phi_distance": -1.0, "storage": "varies", "cluster": "CompressionTrick", "status": "Verified", "standard": "Wilkinson 1965; modern revivals", "use_case": "per-tile shared exponent", "gf_relation": "ally", "source": "Darvish-Rouhani 2020" }, { "id": "shared_exp", "name": "shared-exponent formats", "bits": 0, "s_bits": 0, "e_bits": 0, "m_bits": 0, "bias": 0, "phi_distance": -1.0, "storage": "varies", "cluster": "CompressionTrick", "status": "Verified", "standard": "generalised BFP", "use_case": "LLM quantization", "gf_relation": "ally", "source": "Darvish-Rouhani 2020" }, { "id": "per_channel_scale", "name": "INT8 with per-channel scale", "bits": 8, "s_bits": 1, "e_bits": 0, "m_bits": 7, "bias": 0, "phi_distance": -1.0, "storage": "u8_plus_fp32_scale", "cluster": "CompressionTrick", "status": "Verified", "standard": "Jacob 2018 (TFLite)", "use_case": "standard quant inference", "gf_relation": "competitor", "source": "Jacob 2018 (CVPR)" }, { "id": "stochastic_rounding", "name": "stochastic rounding (technique)", "bits": 0, "s_bits": 0, "e_bits": 0, "m_bits": 0, "bias": 0, "phi_distance": -1.0, "storage": "varies", "cluster": "CompressionTrick", "status": "Verified", "standard": "Gupta 2015", "use_case": "training small networks at low precision", "gf_relation": "ally", "source": "Gupta 2015 (ICML)" } ] }