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In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge—a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?'
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Gu, C. (2016). Fixed Point Math. In: Building Embedded Systems. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1919-5_12
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