*reads April fools post about 2, 4, 8 bit FP, is upset that the author didn't get the formats right.* We documented this stuff!
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Need to have three distinct significands to encode Inf, qNaN, sNaN.
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(No, you can't use the sign bit to distinguish qNaN and sNaN).
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That you need two exponent bits is more subtle; the obvious approach of having one bit for zero/subnorm or inf/nan doesn't work because of \
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the formulas for emin and emax and the constraint that emax > emin.
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