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Every implementation of floating point can handle small to medium integers without rounding. So that example doesn't show anything we can learn from.
by Dylan16807 1y ago
Every implementation of floating point can handle small to medium integers without rounding. So that example doesn't show anything we can learn from.
- anthk 1y agoButh for Forth you can have a totally working software floating point made from the people whose later would set the IEEE standard. Think about very small microcontrollers without FP in hardware, you can be sure that a software FP implementation will perfectly work under the standard thresolds.
- Dylan16807 1y agoOkay, I guess? I appreciate having a well-verified library when I can't have floating point hardware, but I'm never in that situation and I really don't see how it's relevant to this discussion. Any floating point implementation is going to have rounding problems, including IEEE. The example above is IEEE.