[PD] floating-point question

[Mathieu Bouchard]

Le 2012-02-20 à 11:03:00, Lorenzo Sutton a écrit :

> Careful, though, if you convert it back to 32 or 16 bit.
> Especially if you are using expensive gear:
> http://www.around.com/ariane.html

It's not just converting to lesser number of bits. I'd also think that 
they converted it to int16 (similar to the format of wav files). The 
float16 format didn't exist back then, and is still not supported by 
hardware outside of graphics cards of the 2000's.

Also, they got an overflow and not a lack of precision. Lack of precision 
doesn't matter when you get an overflow. Overflow also doesn't matter when 
the number is used for entirely the wrong thing.

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