Comment by WalterBright

> What do you mean by respect?

The disinterest programmers have in using 80 bit arithmetic.

A bit of background - I wrote my one numerical analysis programs when I worked at Boeing. The biggest issue I had was accumulation of rounding errors. More bits would put off the cliff where the results turned into gibberish.

I know there are techniques to minimize this problem. But they aren't simple or obvious. It's easier to go to higher precision. After all, you have the chip in your computer.