[squeak-dev] The Inbox: Kernel-nice.652.mcz
Rodney Polkinghorne
rpolkinghorne at groupwise.swin.edu.au
Mon Nov 7 06:24:06 UTC 2011
I much prefer 1.0 to 0.999...9. Thanks Nicolas.
> Here is a better argumentation from David M. Gay in "Correctly Rounded
> Binary-Decimal and Decimal-Binary Conversions".
Why would anyone care how long a computer takes to print floats? If
it's talking to other machines, they can speak in binary: the format
is more standard than the printed ones. If humans are listening in,
any machine is fast enough.
Rodney
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