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NaN Gates and Flip FLOPS: Floating-Point Computer Hardware

suckerpinch · Demo · YouTube title: NaN Gates and Flip FLOPS
Why it's here

HN fans hold it up as a favorite among his videos and an example of gloriously bonkers technical art, and cite it in floating-point discussions.

What it covers

Tom Murphy (suckerpinch) presents a deliberately trollish computer architecture built on IEEE-754 floating point, using NaN and infinity to define logic gates. He builds working hardware around the idea.