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| From | Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: Qbasic |
| Date | 2016-02-16 08:20 +0000 |
| Organization | Bluesomatic |
| Message-ID | <slrnnc5muj.8kf.plan.b@ID-309335.user.uni-berlin.de> (permalink) |
| References | (13 earlier) <beaadb0d-840d-4bc2-bf58-293c8510deab@googlegroups.com> <MPG.3129977b37fcd5c0989f76@news.eternal-september.org> <38c32ddf-336d-4e35-bace-74dae433bbd5@googlegroups.com> <812668888.477156619.586020.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <n9tfr911t66@news3.newsguy.com> |
On 15 Feb 2016 21:27:05 GMT, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: > > I'm always somewhat perplexed by this fascination with floating point. > Sure, there are applications where it's needed - but many commercial > shops have little or no use for it. In my entire career I can count > the number of times I've used floating point on the fingers of one hand - > and this includes stuff I'm working on right now. > > YMMV. > This was a constant subject for discussion in the Forth community way back when. Many large astronomical programs and stuff for NASA were written without floating point. Double length integers and scaling are all that's needed in most cases. -- Stan Barr plan.b@bluesomatic.org
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