• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Floats make a lot of math way simpler, especially for audio, but then you run into the occasional NaN error.

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      8 months ago

      On the PS3 cell processor vector units, any NaN meant zero. Makes life easier if there is errors in the data.