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> I have meet a surprisingly large number of people who think that fixed point arithmetic is the solution to all of their problems >a bad choice for most scien
by mamcx 6y ago
> I have meet a surprisingly large number of people who think that fixed point arithmetic is the solution to all of their problems
>a bad choice for most scientific computation
Is weird this. Scientific computation is at most a niche.
Financial and real-world decimal calculations is the norm.
That is why a lot of people could be server better by the use of decimals or fixed point.
- nestorD 6y agoIt might be me, I work with people doing simulation and ML, not game or web dev. People doing financial computations are using fixed-point for very good reasons but, other than them, the scientific people are the only one that I know of who care deeply for the results of their numerical computations.
- NovemberWhiskey 6y ago>Financial and real-world decimal calculations is the norm. A significant amount of financial calculation is not in the nature of 'sum this column of numbers'. Most computation in e.g. derivative pricing has a lot more to do with scientific computing than it does with accountancy.