Re: floating point (was: Re: [Gimp-developer] R&H on Film Gimp and GIMP)

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On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:49:05AM +0100, Tino Schwarze wrote:
> I'm just curious: What do you get by using 32-bit _float_? Why not use
> 1.31-Bit Fixed Point? It should have a higher precision than 32-bit
> float - at least, it's precision is steady.

The point is probably to be allowed to go below 0 or over 1 -- you might not
always want to work in a clamped range, like fixed point does.

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