https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2512.10964/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348025urn:hackerpapers:mention:2512.10964:48348025Sun, 31 May 2026 18:03:54 GMT<p>Balanced ternary fp is not a reduced precision type of binary fp: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10964 &gt;Unlike their binary counterparts, posits and takums, tekums simultaneously accommodate both ∞ and NaR, while retaining the simplicity of negation by flipping the underlying trit string. Perhaps most strikingly, tekums enable rounding by truncation, a property that eradicates at a stroke some notorious problems of rounding in binary arithmetic: double rounding errors, cascading carries in hardware, and the attendant inefficiencies.</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2512.10964/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.ET