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by mschaef
1914 days ago
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They addressed that quite a long time ago, with a switch away from floating point math: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040525-00/?p=39... Somewhat related, HP calculators used floating point BCD internally since the beginning, to avoid this sort of thing. (Custom mostly-4-bit CPU chips with specific hardware for the purpose, etc.) |
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