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by AlotOfReading 21 days ago
It really should have been defined in terms of fixed point like HAWK was. Supposedly you'd need a large number of bits for it, but I'm not sure I find that argument particularly convincing given that floats are a kind of fixed point in log space, with a bunch of asterisks that don't help falcon much.
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As a follow-up to this comment, I sat down and implemented a better method myself, then looked at the specification code to discover they did exactly the same thing.