RE: [f-cpu] Re: Floating-Point?

[Hans Summers <Hans.Summers@tudor.com>]

> > Ah, I have the same opinion about this theme. You don't really
> > need a higher precision than 64 bit. Maybe that will change for
> > galaxy navigation in the future but until now 32 bit are good
> > (and fast) for most cases.
> 
> Actually, floating-point is too imprecise for ANY precision 
> calculation. There are lots of numbers that can't be encoded 
> into floating-point values.

There are also lots of numbers which can't be encoded into BCD values, e.g.
1/3, 1/7 etc.

Floating-point calculations aren't absolute precision but neither are BCD.

Hans
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