Comment by prerok

Well, maybe not exactly unmaintainable but I think most of us have learned that floating point operations are not to be trusted, especially if it needs to run on different processors. Furthermore, calling such math operations is an overkill most of the time. I would definitely never consider it for such a simple operation. I actually agree with you that it might look cleaner and easier to understand, but in my mind it would be such a heavy weight overkill I would never use it.