didn’t like the traditional presentation of floating point numbers, so he decided to explain them a different way. Instead of thinking of an exponent and a mantissa — the traditional terms ...

The power is called the "exponent." In the computer, the bits devoted to floating point are divided between the numeric value, known as the "mantissa," and the exponent power. Every floating point ...

P3109 aims to create a floating-point 8 standard. Machine learning often needs less precision than a 32-bit scheme. The white paper proposes two different flavors of FP8: E4M3 (4-bit exponent and ...