On Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 7:40 AM Camm Maguire <c...@maguirefamily.org> wrote:
> Does anyone care about anything other than 4 or 8 byte floats? I know I don't, also I've never encountered, in 40+ years of numerical programming, a problem that really needed bigger or smaller ones. I'm not claiming those problems don't exist; only that they're uncommon to the point of invisibility. Creating another float type is taking on a pretty big investment in implementation and testing. (The first person who says "OH IT'S NO BIG DEAL" is hereby saddled with the responsibility for it.) Frankly I don't think the investment is worth the very small expected payoff. FWIW Robert
