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1. Julia Evans (b0rk@social.jvns.ca)'s status on Thursday, 09-Feb-2023 05:09:07 JST Julia Evans

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   my agenda here is I'm trying to come up with some rough guidelines to help people understand when it makes sense to use floating point and when it doesn't.

   So far I have "if your code is doing statistics/trigonometry/calculus/square roots, you probably want floating point! But if not... consider an integer instead". I think it still needs more nuance but it's a start.

   • Julia Evans (b0rk@social.jvns.ca)'s status on Thursday, 09-Feb-2023 05:09:12 JST Julia Evans

     What are some examples of cases where using floating point IS appropriate that are less science-y and more business-y?

     Specifically I'm looking for use cases for floating point which involve

     * no trigonometry
     * no calculus or differential equations
     * no rotations (eg no graphics programming)
     * no statistics

     Adrian Cochrane repeated this.