Had not known about this, thanks for sharing. This does certainly seem very interesting and applicable to the problem at hand. Large values are important to keep instead of NaNs and we generally don't need the precision in my experience.

Plus, when they're that big, they're sort of a wrecking hammer to whatever weights they touch anyways, so might as well save the precision for the cleanup steps afterwards where it really counts (at whatever number of bits works best of course) :D :)))) :D :))))