Re: Making Lemonade (Floating-point format changes)

MitchAlsup1 wrote:

BGB wrote:
 

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Errm, I was promoting the idea of cost-cut floating point, not blatantly
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broken floating point...

 Would you promote the idea where the customer could specify whether his
car had air bags and crash safety cell or not ??
 Same point here.

We do have that in the form of having optional air bags: When we bought a Skoda Octavia many years ago, the head-protecting upper air bags were not required by law so we paid to get them as an option.
Terje
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