Comment by selridge

"Oh, IEEE 754 double precision floating point accuracy?"

Ok, so we do agree! You DON'T want to go back to a system where everyone had to do their own arithmetic just to make a program! That's fabulous. I'm glad that we're in agreement.

It's it SO MUCH NICER to just have the vagaries of one arithmetic we've already agreed upon to deal with, instead of needing to become an expert in numerical analysis just to get along with things.