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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: how cast works?
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2024 23:00:17 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 7 Aug 2024 20:00:28 -0000 (UTC), Dan Purgert wrote:

> Floating point is a huge mess ...

That mess has gone away with the essentially universal adoption of 
IEEE754. There were a few hardware stragglers back in the 1990s, but even 
they have come around by now.

Not sure if Java has caught up yet, though ...