minus-squarelone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml•IEEE 754linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 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
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.