In the first section you call the hypothetical IEEE754 8-bit formats "dfp8", e.g. dfp8 e3m4. but in the subsequent sections you call them "binary8", e.g. binary8p5. The mapping between the two is fairly obvious, but could be somewhat confusing because you haven't defined what "binary8" is yet in the OFP8 table. Then in the following tables, there are binary8 columns in both the IEEE754 and the P3109 sections.
Thank you for pointing this out. I changed the naming of the hypothetical format from binary8 to dfp8 to try to avoid confusion with the P3109 format and I have missed a few locations. I will publish an update to correct this.
Fprox, nice article.
In the first section you call the hypothetical IEEE754 8-bit formats "dfp8", e.g. dfp8 e3m4. but in the subsequent sections you call them "binary8", e.g. binary8p5. The mapping between the two is fairly obvious, but could be somewhat confusing because you haven't defined what "binary8" is yet in the OFP8 table. Then in the following tables, there are binary8 columns in both the IEEE754 and the P3109 sections.
Hi Al,
Thank you for pointing this out. I changed the naming of the hypothetical format from binary8 to dfp8 to try to avoid confusion with the P3109 format and I have missed a few locations. I will publish an update to correct this.