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EhrmannS / bitfield

Handle Bit-Flags to record Quality for Modeled Data Products
https://ehrmanns.github.io/bitfield/
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elaborate on numeric encoding #5

Open EhrmannS opened 1 week ago

EhrmannS commented 1 week ago

R and its packages have different standards on how numeric values are handled, for example see https://tibble.tidyverse.org/articles/numbers.html for an in depth discussion on this in the tibble package. As it is highly relevant how bitfield treats numeric values, there is potential for confusion, which needs to be clarified beyond a doubt for bitfield to become a reliable tool.

EhrmannS commented 1 week ago

Perhaps it makes sense to summarise the information here (https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~tomf/notes/cps104/floating) in a similarly entertaining way that can be read from within the package documentation.