Floating point from scratch: Hard Mode · Tales on the wire
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Actually building floating point from scratch!
Table of Contents Table of Contents I have a confession to make: floating point scares me. Half a decade ago I decided that I was going to implement some floating point arithmetic. Back then it seemed approachable enough, after all, floating points are ubiquitous. How hard can it really be ? My experience until that point had been: given enough time and effort is spent bashing my brain against a problem, I can generally figure things out. This is how I faced the most complete technical defeat of my existence. Through this utter annihilation emerged my present fear of floating point. After half
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