Den 2021-01-04 kl. 04:17, skrev The Natural Philosopher:
> On 03/01/2021 19:15, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>> On 2021-01-03, Joe  wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 03 Jan 2021 15:41:04 GMT
>>> Jan Panteltje  wrote:
>>>
>>>>   I use an asm math library written by someone else,
>>>> so far 32 bit integer was all I needed,
>>>
>>>   "If you need to use floating-point arithmetic in FORTH,
>>>   you do not fully understand your application"
>>>
>>> Not sure if it was Charles Moore or Leo Brodie who said that.
>>
>> It makes sense, though, depending on your applications.
>> In 50 years of commercial programming, I can count the
>> number of times I've used floating point on the fingers
>> of one hand.
>>
> Odd. I use it extensively. Not for money oriented stuff tho
>

Money should use Fixed type.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_arithmetic#Computer_language_impleme
ntations>


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