COBOL

as for economic stability, that is what COBOL is for. its not binary based, its decimal. so all transactions used on it, no matter how many, doesnt matter. if you have a value like 150$, and its supposed to get an increase of 1% per year, you just do 150*1.1. if it gets divided into 4 parts, you just do 150*1.1/4. etc. so after awhile, or rather years, it might look like 150*1.1/4*1.1/4*1.1/4*1.1/4*1.1/4*1.1/4*1.1/4*1.1/4 or whatever (even million times bigger calculations than this for global corporations), but it will still be accurate, beyond 32bit float, even 64 or 128.

as for the problem with audio, something else not mentioned, that in the nullites, most still only had 16-bit soundcards. so when you changed the volume, in windows at least, you got audible glitch sounds. now that we got 24-bit mixing that is solved. most support 32bit mixing, or even 64 or 128 again. and in ableton the highest i can output is 394khz, together with 32bit, it actually sounds like vinyl. all analog audio is floating point.

btw i wish audacity supported better floating point beyond 32bit. often when increasing the value with limiter, i cant figure out compressors, theres audible errors. going above 0db that is. ive done many albums in audacity, partially but a big part. ive noticed, maybe they fixed it now, but ableton doesnt support distortion effects beyond 16bit. it just gets interpolated into softness. and with vinyl even cassette you can still get distortion effects, which do sound better. most rock music in vhs quality is just noisy, in a bad way.

also, something you might find interesting, that with the first proper binary programming language FORTRAN, LISP was released at the same time, and it was actually symbol based.

one last note, fm radio sounds better than even 180gram vinyl singles. at least if you connect it to your wall socket. because again, fm like all signals are analog. its a lot more than 19khz. what is the bitrate? just like these vids i see on youtube where someone records an expensive stereo, it sounds better than just playing the same song on your stereo. same for fm radio. all the gear they use gets transmitted in the air.