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by IEEE754 2538 days ago
> Most think of it as base-10 [...] I'm surprised nobody has made a decent fixed point lib that is widely used already.

Note that fixed radix point does not solve the common issues with representing rational base 10 fractions. A base10 fixed radix solution would, but so would IEEE754's decimal64 spec, which would eliminate representation error when working exclusively in the context of base10 e.g finance, but these are not found in common hardware and do not help reduce propagation of error due to compounding with limited precision in any base.