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0 pointsDylan168079mo ago0 comments

Every implementation of floating point can handle small to medium integers without rounding. So that example doesn't show anything we can learn from.

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anthk9mo ago

Buth for Forth you can have a totally working software floating point made from the people whose later would set the IEEE standard. Think about very small microcontrollers without FP in hardware, you can be sure that a software FP implementation will perfectly work under the standard thresolds.

Dylan16807OP9mo ago

Okay, I guess? I appreciate having a well-verified library when I can't have floating point hardware, but I'm never in that situation and I really don't see how it's relevant to this discussion. Any floating point implementation is going to have rounding problems, including IEEE. The example above is IEEE.

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0 pointsDylan168079mo ago0 comments

Every implementation of floating point can handle small to medium integers without rounding. So that example doesn't show anything we can learn from.

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anthk9mo ago

Dylan16807OP9mo ago

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