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Stop using floats (lemmy.world)

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

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[–] ZILtoid1991 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Floats make a lot of math way simpler, especially for audio, but then you run into the occasional NaN error.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

On the PS3 cell processor vector units, any NaN meant zero. Makes life easier if there is errors in the data.