Steve Holden wrote: [...] > Personally I wouldn't even be interested in seeing > 1.3407807929942597e+154 written in fixed point form *in decimal*, let > alone in binary where the representation, though unambiguous, would have > over 500 bits, most of them zeros. > Well, shot myself in the foot there of course, since the number I meant was actually 2.0 ** 512 (or 13407807929942597099574024998205846127479365820592393377723561443721764030073546 976801874298166903427690031858186486050853753882811946569946433649006084096.0) rather than the decimal approximation above. But I'm sure you get the point that fixed-point representations aren't always appropriate.
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