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As part of the spec, a true posit implementation includes an exact accumulator unit. This has been described for decades, is pipelineable, and allows for, say 10e20+1-10e20 == 1. We've shown that this gives speedup and about 10^5 improvement in accuracy for linpack 1000.



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