[boost] Big floats, was Re: Seeking Endorsement: Boost.int128

On 4/30/26 02:29, Peter Taraba via Boost wrote:

imagine you are president of USA and you have to make decision. knowing answer is 50.000001% (decision is yes) is better than 50% (no clue if decision is yes or no).

Actually, I would interpret any result in the 35% to 65% range as "I don't know", and use my own judgement. AI is the last place I would expect big floats. Even 32 bits is often more than needed, hence the common use of 16 bit floats in AI. -- Rainer Deyke - rainerd@eldwood.com