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There have been some pretty heavy critiques of it when it has been posted to HN in the past, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7367021 https://news.ycom
by anamexis 11y ago
There have been some pretty heavy critiques of it when it has been posted to HN in the past, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7367021 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7367021
- rcthompson 11y agoIt looks like the biggest critique is that checking for equality is slow, but checking floats for equality is almost always a bug anyway.
- jhallenworld 11y agoThe base is 10, but the mantissa is in binary. Before you add or subtract you must get the numbers to have equal exponents. In other formats you can do it with shifting, but this format requires binary multiplication or division.
- nils-m-holm 11y agoS9fES (http://t3x.org/s9fes/ http://t3x.org/s9fes/) uses decimal-based real numbers and does multiplication, division and exponent equalization by shifting. It's not hard, since one digit equals one byte.