[eternityforest]

I like to think of floating point values as noisy analog voltages, with the extra propery that they can store small integers perfectly, and they can be copied within code but not round trip serialized and deserializer without noise.

They're not really noisy, but if an application would work with some random noise added, it will probably work with floats, and if it wouldn't work with noise added, it's probably easier to just not use floats and expext people to reason about IEEE details, while risking subtle bugs if different float representations get mixed.

Of course I'm not doing a lot of high performance algorithms, I would imagine in some applications you really do need to reason about floats.