On Sunday, July 31, 2016 at 3:21:09 PM UTC+12, Rustom Mody wrote: > In writing Tex he went out of his way to implement his own fixed point > system and avoid using the builtin hardware floating point > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX#Development > > To the extent its feasible it’s advisable to follow the example of Knuth > [No not writing your own system, but avoiding when/if possible]
This is why IEEE-854 was developed, and why Python has the Decimal type <https://docs.python.org/3/library/decimal.html>. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
