Comment by DiggyJohnson
1 year ago
How could their comment possibly be "incorrect and disastrously so" unless the FAA is citing this thread for their investigation?
1 year ago
How could their comment possibly be "incorrect and disastrously so" unless the FAA is citing this thread for their investigation?
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