Comment on IEEE 754

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Womble@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Eh, if you use doubles and you add 0.000314 (just over 0.03 cents) to ten billion dollars you have an error of 1/1000 of a cent, and thats a deliberately perverse transaction. Its not ideal but its not the waiting disaster that using single precision is.

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