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     A. Square (asquare@hayu.sh)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 17:52:55 JST A. Square
     When Everything is Off Brand Floating Point

     (IEEE 754 double-precision binary floating-point, to be (doubly) precise.)

     I am the buyer, aka Steven He’s father. I am played by Steven He. I wear a dark grey jacket over a red t-shirt.

     And I am the seller, a purveyor of questionable goods. I am played by Stiffen E, a cheap, low-quality Steven He substitute. Made in China, of course. I wear a puffy yellow-and-purple jacket.

     (Translator’s note: wait, wasn’t the original Steven He made in China?)

     Do you have $1/3$ ?

     We have $0.5555555555555 (base 16)$ .

     You mean $0.5555555555555\ldots (base 16)$ ?

     Yes, $0.5555555555555 (base 16)$ .

     (TL: note the conspicuous absence of continuations dots)

     You have $0.3$ ?

     We have $0.4CCCCCCCCCCC (base 16)$ .

     Do you have any primes?

     We have over a trillion primes!

     And multiplicative inverses of primes?

     Slightly less, but yeah, we have them.

     How much, exactly, is “slightly” less?

     Just one.

     You have $\sqrt{2}$ ?

     We have $1.6A09E667F3BCD (base 16)$ .

     Okay, do you have the square of whatever that is?

     We have $2.0000000000002 (base 16)$ .

     You have sixth roots of unity?

     We have $1$ and $-1$.

     The hell? Where are the other four?

     You have $\pi$ ?

     We have crumbs.

     You have Euler’s number?

     We have Euler’s eyeball.

     You have continued fractions?

     We have compound fractures.

     You have imaginary numbers?

     We have things that aren’t numbers.