This is exactly the scheme from Office Space - minus a decimal shifted the wrong direction...
The problem is accumulating that inaccuracy when there are well-known, battle-tested libraries and data-types available specifically to avoid that problem. Except, maybe not as well-known as they ought to be...
People these days tend to have no idea how numbers are actually stored in bits and bytes. I'm more likely to find an English major who would be able to remember Big-Endian vs Little-Endian (albeit in the original Swiftian context) than a web developer who has any idea what that means. Forget about mantissas and exponents in floating point, or two's complement integers.
The problem is accumulating that inaccuracy when there are well-known, battle-tested libraries and data-types available specifically to avoid that problem. Except, maybe not as well-known as they ought to be...
People these days tend to have no idea how numbers are actually stored in bits and bytes. I'm more likely to find an English major who would be able to remember Big-Endian vs Little-Endian (albeit in the original Swiftian context) than a web developer who has any idea what that means. Forget about mantissas and exponents in floating point, or two's complement integers.