From 8ed7664fd31309b1aeb4ccfb795721204121136a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2020 11:43:09 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] wip notes about repr

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
---
 templates/bigfloat.ts | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/templates/bigfloat.ts b/templates/bigfloat.ts
index ed349566..89ba8b9e 100644
--- a/templates/bigfloat.ts
+++ b/templates/bigfloat.ts
@@ -7,9 +7,21 @@
 // This is a really really shonky BigFloat with only a handful of
 // operations available!
 
+
+// Representation requirements:
+//    CBOR is binary and compact
+//    JSON is not lossy
+// Nice-to-haves:
+//    JSON 
+
+
 type Bigfloat_Json = number[];
 
 class Bigfloat {
+  // syntqax:
+  //   [!] EEEE ! VVVVVVVV
+
+
   exponent: number;
   limbs: number[]; // BE, limbs are each in [ 0, 2^48 )
   // binary point is just before limbs[0]
-- 
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