A good article. However the real floppy disk is the floating point standard . These days other number representation are exceeding floating point in terms of dynamic range, flexibility, fewer exception cases, better rounding, and cheaper/faster hardware implementations.
Read about Unum computing, pioneered by John Gustafson, and implemented on many modern software and hardware platforms.
Read about Unum computing, pioneered by John Gustafson, and implemented on many modern software and hardware platforms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unum_(number_format)