27 Mar
2017
27 Mar
'17
11:54 a.m.
On 27/03/2017 02:07, Henry Baker wrote:
At 01:02 PM 3/26/2017, Gareth McCaughan wrote: This has the drawback that essentially no integers other than
0 and +-1 are *exactly* represented, unless I'm missing something. I'm not sure how much that matters, but it would be quite a departure from conventional floating-point representations.
I'm not so sure that anyone cares about this anymore.
Why not? One reason why people might care *more* about it these days, outside the context of serious numerical work: more and more of the world runs on Javascript, and Javascript's number semantics are basically "everything is an IEEE double". -- g