wedrifid comments on The Pascal's Wager Fallacy Fallacy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 29 April 2011 03:31:52AM 1 point [-]

Are you suggesting that modeling real numbers with floating point is a good practice?

Good, certainly. Not a universally optimal practice though. There are times when unlimited precision is preferable, despite the higher computational overhead. There are libraries for that too.