On Friday, 9 June 2017 at 16:34:28 UTC, ketmar wrote:
Try -0.16666685f.it doesn't matter if i can find the decimal representation for the given bit pattern or not. the whole post is about removing the need to rely on lossy binary->decimal->binary conversions.
Lossless turn-around is guaranteed if you are using sufficiently many digits. In case of IEEE-754 single precision it's 8 significant decimal digits.
