AI has rediscovered https://www.davidhbailey.com/dhbsoftware/ and similar? Or are there algorithmic improvements? Without referencing established double-double work it's hard to know.
Fun fact - Google Maps does something similar to this in WebGL in order to keep accurate coordinates across a planet-sized map using only 32-bit floats.
Could be a neat post, but it was too obviously LLM-generated for me to care about reading it deeply. I’m really fine with people using LLMs to write code and understand stuff, but at least drop a disclaimer when you’re blogging straight Claude text.
Mostly useless, but was quite fun to write.