Timeline for Performance and other issues with using floating point types in C++
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| Mar 14, 2013 at 15:52 | comment | added | user29079 | This is sound advice. In my experience, there is a frightening amount of programmers who think "my number has a decimal point and therefore I must use float". For example: "The specification says that my program should calculate the length in meters, the output can be anything from 0 to 9.99. Therefore I must use float." Think outside the box and rewrite the program so that it uses centimeters! 0-999 centimeters can fit in a 16 bit integer, there is no reason why you would need float. | |
| Mar 13, 2013 at 0:16 | history | answered | mattnz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |