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Comment by adrian_b

True, but those who do not use decimal floating-point numbers do not use such binary floating-point numbers.

They use binary fixed-point numbers/integers, where such computations are exact, while not having the huge computational overhead of decimal floating-point numbers.

parent adrian_b 1 month ago

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