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support floats (at least float64) #80

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bnewbold opened this issue Apr 2, 2023 · 0 comments
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support floats (at least float64) #80

bnewbold opened this issue Apr 2, 2023 · 0 comments

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bnewbold commented Apr 2, 2023

There seems to be a loose consensus that floats are a bad idea in content-addressable systems, but floats are included in the IPLD datamodel; are defined in DAG-CBOR; and are definitely supported in basic CBOR.

A motivating use case is to fully support the bluesky "lexicon" language, which has "float" as a type. It is recommended against actually using floats in bluesky lexicon, but it is allowed, and it is supported in the typescript implementation.
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