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Stop using floats (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by nifty to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Audio, like a lot of physical systems, involve logarithmic scales, which is where floating-point shines. Problem is, all the other physical systems, which are not logarithmic, only get to eat the scraps left over by IEEE 754. Floating point is a scam!

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