Do any of the proposals on the table affect floating point math?

Currently, it seems mildly inconsistent to me that Clojure's numeric
operations are auto-promoting and arbitrary-precision for integers but not
for floats unless you specifically request it with the M suffix. This
probably matters only to people doing scientific computing, but it's
something to think about.

To illustrate with a question: If we were to make "fast" the default and
"correct" something you opt into with the primed operators and (num <some
number>), then does the question arise whether BigDecimals (as opposed to
doubles) are returned from (num <some float>) and (*' <float> <float>)?

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