dmcq (dmcq.delete@this.fano.co.uk) on November 1, 2015 7:36 am wrote:
> Engineers like to just get results and are willing to blow an extra couple of hours computer
> time if it saves them think time. They do have a clue but nobody is an expert at everything.
> There's no need to talk of them as not having a clue because they use double instead of float!

You don't have a clue about what engineers do or don't.
Stop talking like you do.

What you claim to be super hard stuff is part of the
basic education of anyone who wants to be an engineer
or go into the natural sciences. These people are
probably the last ones to worry about losing random
bits and they know how to interpret results.

You are right about that they are as pragmatic as
everyone else, but you are still wrong and you still
need to properly learn about floating point math
before guessing how it is used.