From: stephen@vfxforth.com   
      
   On 10 Jul 2025 at 02:18:50 CEST, "minforth"  wrote:   
      
   > "Industry" can manage well with 32-bit   
   > floats or even smaller with non-standard number formats.   
      
   My customers beg to differ and some use 128 bit numbers for   
   their work. In a construction estimate for one runway for the   
   new Hong Kong airport, the cost difference between a 64 bit FP   
   calculation and the integer calculation was US 10 million dollars.   
   This was for pile capping which involves a large quantity of relatively   
   small differences.   
      
   Stephen   
      
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