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I'm sorry, are you asking for what purpose a scientist would need to multiply by a power of ten? Converting between units in scientific notation? Doing base 1
by drewcrawford 13y ago
I'm sorry, are you asking for what purpose a scientist would need to multiply by a power of ten? Converting between units in scientific notation? Doing base 10 logarithms? Calculating things in decibels?
Maybe I have misunderstood the question.
- jey 13y agoThe original post that started this thread was saying that chips should support decimal floating point natively in silicon instead of only base-2 floating point. Yes, those are different things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE754#Basic_formats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE754#Basic_formats
- drewcrawford 13y agoI am well aware of the difference between base 2 and base 10. You asked "why not just use doubles?" And my answer is "because one often multiplies by powers of ten."