On 20 February 2014 15:26, bearophile <bearophileh...@lycos.com> wrote: > Slide 6: > >> Even the IEEE standard (1985) made choices that look dubious now< > > > On the other hand it's still working surprisingly well today. > > >> Negative zero. (ugh!) > > > It's not bad. > > > Slide 15: are (Page Rank and) mp3 Players using floating point values? >
Most encoding formats use a form of discrete cosine transform, which involves floating point maths.
