Plural of posit

Forms of posit

Posits in a sentence

• With their new hardware implementation, which was synthesized in a field-programmable gate array (FPGA), the Complutense team was able to compare computations done using 32-bit floats and 32-bit posits side by side.2022 September 25, Dina Genkina, “Posits, a New Kind of Number, Improves the Math of AI”, in IEEE Spectrum, New York, N.Y.: Institute of...
• Among many Indians, however, an exonormative view, which even today posits British English as the target model, appears to be firmly in place.2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 113
• Her theory posits that secular religions will rush in to fill the cultural void left by the decline of religiosity.From the entry secular religion
• Thomas Bauer meanwhile posits a reading of the Qur'anic mubin as a comment on the deliberate stylistic obfuscity of pre-Islamic poetry.2020, Mustafa Shah, M. A. S. Abdel Haleem, The Oxford Handbook of Qur'anic Studies, page 133. From the entry obfuscity
• “Loving on” someone—whether he likes it or not—posits love as a volitional activity, an act not of passion but of will.2016 July 28, Rebecca Mead, “The Power of ‘Love’ in Politics”, in The New Yorker. From the entry volitional

Meaning of posit

1. noun Something that is posited; a postulate.
2. noun 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.
3. verb To assume the existence of; to postulate.

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Questions about the plural of posit

What is the plural of posit?

The plural of posit is posits.

Is posit countable?

Posit is a countable noun.