Re: Converting decimals to the posit format

[John Gustafson]

Keerthana,

I have just what you need, because I recently drafted the chapter of my next book that covers this and describes the algorithm in pseudo-code and walks through an example. I'll attach the excerpt of the chapter that has the material. Also, if you can read Mathematica code, I can send you a very well-tested routine for converting numbers (any format) into posit format.

John

[Keerthana Menon]

Thank you so much for replying and for the book chapter PDF. Things are much clearer now!

On Jul 31, 2023, at 2:12 AM, Keerthana Menon <keerthan...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,
I am trying to implement a posit adder and multiplier. However, I could not understand how decimals translate to posits (I understood the conversion from posits to decimals)
I figured out that the sign and fraction parts are similar to the IEEE 754 format, but I couldn't understand how to encode the regime and exponent.
Could you please explain how to do it?
Thank you

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