in reply to Re^5: Need more precision.
in thread Need more precision.

I think you are misunderstanding "fixed point".

The point was that the programmer chooses where to fix the point. He can even have multiple fixed point types and move between them for different calculations or parts of the same calculation.

But you're right. At that point in the conversation I wasn't really thinking things through.

As I've looked into it more, I realise that I need more than 64-bits of precision.

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