Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> FWIW, I think you overestimate how many programs use floating point. :-)
> I think the vast majority of programs people use other than perhaps games
> and other graphics type programs don't use any FP at all. Why would
> Thunderbird (for example) use FP?

I guess you *underestimate* how many programs use floating point :)

You probably won't find any modern program with a graphical user interface that
doesn't use floating point numbers somewhere - if only because the GUI
frameworks happens to use a co-ordinate system that is rather independent of
the actual screen pixels, and therefore typically uses floating point values
for the co-ordinates. Or they have some calculation somewhere that uses a
non-integer interim result.

But maybe what you mean is trigonometric functions. These, indeed, may be not so
commonplace.

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