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by greesil 1270 days ago
Either you've got a 64 bit fixed point number, 64Q32 or you just invented your own floating point format, and it's not clear which you're trying to describe.
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Fixed point math is common in software made for business applications because of rounding problems with binary floating point math.

The following link is an example of a good quality fixed point math library and shows you how it is done.

https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/shopspring/decimal?utm_source=...

You are explaining to me something in which I am already an expert. Thank you! Buenbot!