alt Hacker NewsOne thing that really did it for me was programming something where you would normally use floats (audio/DSP) on a platform where floats were abysmally slow. This forced me to explore Fixed-Point options which in turn forced me to explore what the differences to floats are.
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KeplerBoy • today at 8:12 AM
Also heavily used in FPGA based DSP.
Fixed point gave rise to the old programmers meme 'if you need floating point you don't understand your problem'. It's of course partially in jest but there is a grain of truth in it as well.