[Mikhail_K]

IEEE 754 floating-point format has been very carefully and deliberately designed by the top experts in the field. When someone "it sucks", that is a guarantee that whatever design he might come up with would suck ten times as much.

[im3w1l]

Floating point feels to me like a very well designed jack-of-all-trades. They are decent for most tasks, but if you know exactly what you want to do then you can find something that does that particular job better.