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IEEE 754 floating-point format has been very carefully and deliberately designed by the top experts in the field. When someone "it sucks", that is a guarantee t
by Mikhail_K 5y ago
IEEE 754 floating-point format has been very carefully and deliberately designed by the top experts in the field. When someone "it sucks", that is a guarantee that whatever design he might come up with would suck ten times as much.
- im3w1l 5y agoFloating point feels to me like a very well designed jack-of-all-trades. They are decent for most tasks, but if you know exactly what you want to do then you can find something that does that particular job better.