Don't make me REPETEND myself...

[Jack]

Pete I can't answer that, on the other hand, have heard of posit/unum's ?
Dr. John L. Gustafson http://web.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abst...70201.html came up with a different way to do computer arithmetic
here's a 1 and 1/2 hour video https://youtu.be/aP0Y1uAA-2Y
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unum_(number_format)