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

Imagine decision is extremely hard and you have no coice but to make it, because Russians are pointing gun to your peace nobel prize winner. You are leaning towards a choice, and AI confirms it with 50.000000001% - you can sleep as president of United States of America a littlbe better as AI, which is amazing with proccessing huge amount of data (better than human), agrees with you.

Best,

Peter

Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 6:50 AM

From: "Rainer Deyke via Boost" <[email protected]>

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Cc: "Rainer Deyke" <[email protected]>

Subject: [boost] Big floats, was Re: Seeking Endorsement: Boost.int128

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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