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   :umu: :umu: (a1ba@suya.place)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 05:25:33 JST :umu: :umu:

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   @karolherbst floating point number....
   
   
   am I right?..
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     :umu: :umu: (a1ba@suya.place)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 05:25:30 JST :umu: :umu:

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     @karolherbst years of looking into decompiled code doesn't go without a trace
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     karolherbst ? ? (karolherbst@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 05:25:32 JST karolherbst ? ?

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     @a1ba 1.0 to be precise

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 05:26:19 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • karolherbst ? ?
     @a1ba @karolherbst Or just debugging shit all the time.
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     :umu: :umu: (a1ba@suya.place)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 05:32:28 JST :umu: :umu:

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     @lanodan @karolherbst imagine being a programmer who only wrote in languages so high-level they never knew these details, except some common knowledge like 0.1 + 0.2 != 0.3
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 05:33:27 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • karolherbst ? ?
     @a1ba @karolherbst that one can even be fixed in some languages (by not using IEEE floats).
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     :umu: :umu: (a1ba@suya.place)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 05:49:34 JST :umu: :umu:

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     • karolherbst ? ?
     @lanodan @karolherbst (this is the meme float representation, very inaccurate but claims to be better than 754)
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     :umu: :umu: (a1ba@suya.place)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 05:49:35 JST :umu: :umu:

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     @lanodan @karolherbst like posits kek
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     Lyyn ☮️ (lyyn@mastodon.ml)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 06:13:45 JST Lyyn ☮️

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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     @a1ba @karolherbst @lanodan Wtf this shit has so much unique terminology. "Can I have a Type III Unum (posit) quire16 Not-a-Real number please" - sentence dreamed up by the utterly deranged.

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 06:18:13 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Lyyn ☮️
     @lyyn @a1ba @karolherbst Well, mathematicians are to blame for the "real number" thing. (aka ℝ)
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     Lyyn ☮️ (lyyn@mastodon.ml)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 06:21:28 JST Lyyn ☮️

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     • karolherbst ? ?

     @lanodan @karolherbst @a1ba This is okay but I'm more used to NaNs instead of NaRs

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