Big floats, was Re: Seeking Endorsement: Boost.int128

Rainer Deyke via Boost <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel
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On 4/30/26 02:29, Peter Taraba via Boost wrote:
> imagine you are president of USA and you have to make decision. knowing answer
> is 50.000001% (decision is yes) is better than 50% (no clue if decision is yes
> or no).

Actually, I would interpret any result in the 35% to 65% range as "I 
don't know", and use my own judgement.

AI is the last place I would expect big floats.  Even 32 bits is often 
more than needed, hence the common use of 16 bit floats in AI.


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Rainer Deyke - [email protected]

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