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I found that very unintuitive. Is it typical in numerical analysis to talk about the number of decimal digits represented by a binary floating point number? I d

I found that very unintuitive. Is it typical in numerical analysis to talk about the number of decimal digits represented by a binary floating point number? I don't see what is gained by changing base.

erosenbe0 5y ago
It's a bad idea, or okay as an informal thing! It is just using the result that Log10(2^53) is 15.95 to say that 53 bits has 15.95 digits of 'information.'