Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Something that is posited; a postulate. · Abbreviation of position. · A number format representing a real number consisting of a sign bit, a variable-size "regime" part (which modifies the exponent), up to two exponent bits, and a fraction part, proposed as a more efficient alternative to IEEE 754 floats in AI applications.
To assume the existence of; to postulate. · To propose for consideration or study; to suggest. · To put (something somewhere) firmly; to place or position.
Borrowed from Latin positus, perfect participle of pōnō (“put, place”). Noun sense 3 (type of number format) was coined by American computer scientist and businessman John Gustafson in 2017.
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