[withinboredom]

This is incorrect. Very incorrect and disastrously so. Drop 0.3 in here: https://www.h-schmidt.net/FloatConverter/IEEE754.html

You can also drop 524535643, an integer clearly less than 2^53 and is off by 5.

This is even seen here:

    #include <stdio.h>

    int main() {
            float b = 524535643.0f;
            printf("%f", b);
            return 0;
    }

output: 524535648.000000

[gfv]

I was talking specifically about double-precision floats. Single-precision floats can represent every integer up to +-2^24.

[withinboredom]

Ah, missed that detail.

[DiggyJohnson]

How could their comment possibly be "incorrect and disastrously so" unless the FAA is citing this thread for their investigation?

[withinboredom]

The comment said IEEE754 doubles can represent integers to 2^52. But I missed the double or assumed float. Floats cannot do that and it would be disastrous to assume so. For that matter, doubles also have some pretty big issues when you do operations on them (loss of precision), but as long as you are purely doing integer operations, it “should” be fine. A practical example with non-integers: 35 + -34.99