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The Ethereum VM is not for general app programming. It's really not your typical environment. EVM contracts get executed on every network node, and it must retu
by floatboth 9y ago
The Ethereum VM is not for general app programming. It's really not your typical environment. EVM contracts get executed on every network node, and it must return the same results everywhere.
- SolarNet 9y ago> it must return the same results everywhere. We solved that for floats like 10 years ago. Let alone the fact there are better formats, like posits, or fixed point numbers, that also solve this problem very easily.