A good article. However the real floppy disk is the floating point standard . These days other number representation are exceeding floating point in terms of dy

A good article. However the real floppy disk is the floating point standard . These days other number representation are exceeding floating point in terms of dynamic range, flexibility, fewer exception cases, better rounding, and cheaper/faster hardware implementations. Read about Unum computing, pioneered by John Gustafson, and implemented on many modern software and hardware platforms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unum_(number_format) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unum_(number_format)