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> so long as it produces accurate results

That's doing a lot of work. IEE-754 does very in terms of error vs representation size.

What system has accurate results? I don't know any number system at all in usage that 1) represents numbers with a fixed size 2) Can represent 1/n accurately for reasonable integers 3) can do exponents accurately



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