Proved their point? Their point didn't make much sense. What actual engineers NEED to know about floating point numbers could be put on a single A4 page. It do

Proved their point? Their point didn't make much sense. What actual engineers NEED to know about floating point numbers could be put on a single A4 page. It doesn't have to be 50 pages, where many of those pages are full of equations that 99% of engineers don't understand. My point is, because you seem to have trouble grasping this. Most real-world programmers, working at startups or bigger companies, making their WPF applications or Spring applications, or react/jquery/angular apps, or Swift IOS apps, etc, do not NEED to know 99% of this document. For most real-life cases all they need to know is "Use the decimal type if you're dealing with money" or something along those lines. Why do I know I'm correct? Because I work in an organization with 800-1000 engineers, and I know a fair few of them myself, and I bet maybe 1 person in the org has read this doc fully (and even this is a stretch). But the company stills makes billions in revenue every year like clockwork and the world keeps on spinning. Hence, this document is for theorists and academics, not for the average engineer making enterprise business applications. If it is for an engineer, it's for someone making extremely niche mathematical software or something equally arcane.