alt Hacker NewsI guess that's one more good reason to push for correctly rounded transcendental functions. I recently learned that they're basically solved now. [1]
[1] https://arith2026.org/program.html (2nd keynote)
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torginus • yesterday at 10:08 PM
I never understood why fixed precision, and integer math isn't more popular. In engineering, we used fixed point all the time, it ran on much simpler hardware and the error is mathematically easy to model. IEEE 754 floats are not only suspect when it comes to theory, but are often outperformed with integers smaller than the mantissa (so less than 24 bits of int can beat a 32 bit float), when it comes to things like loss of precision.
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Tangential, but wow do they really register a new domain for each year and renew it in perpetuity?