HextenAndy

Quite. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect someone to check the issue tracker before blogging and I don't think Andrew's response was at all problematic.

Exactly.

It is a standard thing. It's called floating point.

Surely that's just normal floating point but missing e.g. normalisation? Floating point is literally an int exponent and an int mantissa. Except real floating point adjusts the exponent to avoid integer overflow in the mantissa - which is where rounding happens.

In DPA the mantissa just overflows (silently in the C implementation) and then what?

Probably exactly that - relatively few big ticket customers.

I haven’t followed the link - but why not put it all in one place?

Wait until you see subversion :)