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Post-Quantum | Engineering Novel Primitives
Why! your number format is a belief system, why 64-bit machines can only gesture at a 4096-bit integer, why DERVISH's Q64.8192 architecture is a thesis rather than a spec line , and why, on one machine, the quantum correlation bound is a selectable regime.
Michael Doran argues that every number format is really a philosophy about what numbers are. Floating point treats numbers as approximate measurements, which suits physics but fails exact algebra like cryptography. Conventional 64-bit CPUs cannot truly hold a 4096-bit integer; they “flatten” it into software-managed fragments stitched together by protocol. His DERVISH processor instead makes full-width Q64.8192 fixed-point values native, single objects living in one register, computed exactly using multiplier-free CORDIC shift-and-add hardware. Building on this, he claims a “super-quantum” processing unit whose correlator treats quantum bounds as selectable regimes, reaching past Tsirelson’s 2√2 toward the Popescu-Rohrlich ceiling of 4.