Talk:X86 Assembly/Intrinsic Data Types

The text "Floating point numbers are the real numbers" not only is false but can be very damaging to a student. Moreover, using Pi as an example completes the misleading idea that a computer can accurately represent a real number. I plan to change some of the material there to put something that is mathematically correct. PabloStraub (discuss • contribs) 02:08, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

The way a phrase "decimal point" is used in the text is rather misleading. As far as I know there are no decimal floating point numbers in x86 Assembly. Therefore it should be stated clearly wherever there are decimal floating point numbers in 486 (probably not, but maybe author of the article has better sources) and/or different phrasing ought to be used (like "point" instead of "decimal"). JaBoJa (discuss • contribs) 23:29, 3 April 2017 (UTC)