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For a "computational math" (ish) language, having FP64 as the default number format seems pretty reasonnable to me. Cases where one needs bignums of course exis
by the_svd_doctor 6y ago
For a "computational math" (ish) language, having FP64 as the default number format seems pretty reasonnable to me. Cases where one needs bignums of course exist, but I think they are less common. Usually if you need arbitrary precision, you know it.
- nsajko 6y agoTurns out I wish I could delete my top-level comment now, because I realized that because of Julia's type conversion and promotion semantics a user would actually not get into the problems I worried about.