Re: Fixed point Vs Floating point

John Larkin wrote:


Some famous person said :If you absolutely have to use floating point,
you don't understand the problem."


Obviously a FORTH bigot. ;)

This is right in instruments, but not e.g. in a math program, where part of the point is that you don't want to limit what the user can do. The dynamic range of any instrument is far less than that of an IEEE single-precision float.

Cheers,

Phil Hobbs
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