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On 6/23/25 3:42 PM, rbowman wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 16:43:35 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> 
>> (In my 50-year career, I can count the number of times I've used
>> floating point on the fingers of one hand.  Yes, I do have an integer
>> square root algorithm...)
> 
> Different strokes.  I can count the number of times I've used fixed point
> on the fingers of one hand.
> 

   Where ever possible I multiply floats by ten or a hundred
   or a thousand and then use integer math. Too much exposure
   to micro-controllers with almost no math abilities I guess.
   Even 64-bit integer ops are much faster than implementing
   FP algos on old stupid chips.