1 Dec
2006
1 Dec
'06
9:29 p.m.
Ben Strasser wrote:
Perhaps I'm missing something completly obvious but what is the use of a non binary radix integer? Except perhaps faster I/O as no implicit base conversion is needed.
Base ten^n shifts can be practical to implement a "human compatible" float, which is useful to avoid conversion errors in cases where decimal numbers don't have an exact binary representation, such as 0.2 (== 0xb0.001100110011... IIRC). Regards, Tobias