Sujet : Re: Parsing timestamps?
De : stephen (at) *nospam* vfxforth.com (Stephen Pelc)
Groupes : comp.lang.forthDate : 10. Jul 2025, 09:50:43
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On 10 Jul 2025 at 02:18:50 CEST, "minforth" <
minforth@gmx.net> wrote:
"Industry" can manage well with 32-bit
floats or even smaller with non-standard number formats.
My customers beg to differ and some use 128 bit numbers for
their work. In a construction estimate for one runway for the
new Hong Kong airport, the cost difference between a 64 bit FP
calculation and the integer calculation was US 10 million dollars.
This was for pile capping which involves a large quantity of relatively
small differences.
Stephen
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