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noselasd on March 8, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: DEC64: Decimal Floating Point

division/multiplication by powers of 2 is not the only thing people do with binary floating point numbers.

Zardoz84 on March 8, 2014 [–]

Yeah, but you need that to do anything with binary floating point numbers, like a simple addition.

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