Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!XakcSTEO51npqVb7OVl71w.user.46.165.242.75.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "R.Wieser" Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: Are Floating Point Numbers still a Can of Worms? Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2022 13:43:05 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <31753076-4806-4dd3-8577-40a4ed23b57dn@googlegroups.com> Injection-Info: gioia.aioe.org; logging-data="60842"; posting-host="XakcSTEO51npqVb7OVl71w.user.gioia.aioe.org"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@aioe.org"; X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5512 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:41102 John, > There's also the translation from binary to decimal to consider. That sounds as if you know of a problem with it. What might that be ? > Anyway, floating point numbers are accurate enough to indicate the > relativity effect of someone going past you on a bicycle so I don't think > there's a problem. :-) The fact that that BigInt float exists (or even a 80-bit float) does seem to indicate that there are people out there that disagree with you. And if being able to do a certain (rather random) task is the yardstick than I declare that an 8-bit "minifloat" is "big enough for anybody" :-p ... but its not about if you think there is a/no problem, but about explaining why the OP sees what he does. Regards, Rudy Wieser