<Li> Wavpack is a fixed - point, lossless audio compressor . Its creator, David Bryant, justifies the decision to implement fixed instead of floating point: "I believe that integer operations are less susceptible to subtle chip to chip variations that could corrupt the lossless nature of the compression ." </Li> <Li> fixed point numbers are sometimes used for storing and manipulating images and video frames . Processors with SIMD units aimed at image processing may include instructions suitable for handling packed fixed point data . </Li>

Fixed point binary data in signed magnitude representation