minus-squarelone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml•IEEE 754linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoA lot of work has gone into making floating point numbers efficient and they cover 99% of use cases. In the rare case you really need perfect fractional accuracy, it’s not that difficult to implement as a pair of integers. linkfedilink
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A lot of work has gone into making floating point numbers efficient and they cover 99% of use cases. In the rare case you really need perfect fractional accuracy, it’s not that difficult to implement as a pair of integers.