It is hard to understand at first but after playing with this a bit it will make sense. As with everything, there are trade offs compared to IEEE floats, but having more precision when numbers are close to 1 is pretty nice.
according to wayback machine the domain expired at the end of 2021. Months later it came back with the sneaky ad. Their page at github https://includeos.github.io/ does not have it. It is safe to assume whoever grabbed the domain has no association to the authors.
They are trying to build a decentralized and open social protocol and one of the first things they have done is removing scrollbar from their pages for no reason at all. They are definitely on the right track.
I don't work with Python, but when I want to multiply some numbers, I type `python` into terminal and use it as a calculator, as it allows me to do such operations quickly.
It sounds weird that someone opens an IDE and waits ten seconds looking at a splash screen to do a simple multiplication.
It is hard to understand at first but after playing with this a bit it will make sense. As with everything, there are trade offs compared to IEEE floats, but having more precision when numbers are close to 1 is pretty nice.