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by l33tman 2226 days ago
You know a cool thing you can do to help fixed point interop between operations in a complex system where you absolutely don't want to accidentally overflow anywhere? You can tack on some bits to the number to control an overall scale of the fixed point number. Let's call it an exponent ;)
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Agreed. Let's standardize it :))