On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM Kostas Savvidis via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
For general mathematical use, and any sort of scientitic calculations, I am now 100% convinced decimals must not be used.
The only other conceivable use, to write a spreadsheet and/or calculator software, but again there is nothing in the docs to inform us how is this supposed to be accomplished.
I presume you consider Machine Learning scientific computation and they
use fp8. :) It all depends on what you need. Decimal is nice because humans use base10. That does not mean we can represent all numbers with it, beside obvious like 𝜋 or ℯ another example is 1/7 is 0.*142857*142857... (notice the period). I think this is nice short recap https://www.reddit.com/r/swift/comments/qpi486/comment/hjtxkv7/