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   Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 06:17:32 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   I want to invent a currency that has a coin worth 1/3rd of a dollar, just to punish programmers

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     julesh (julesh@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 06:18:58 JST julesh

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     @foone That'll teach em to decimalise the currency, didn't have this problem when it was 12d to the shilling

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     pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 06:21:17 JST pettter

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     @foone rate it at 0.6 cents and watch the rounding errors accumulate

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     pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 06:22:10 JST pettter

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     • Aaron Sawdey, Ph.D.

     @acsawdey @foone wasn't there an early Soviet computer that used trinary electronics in some way?

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     Aaron Sawdey, Ph.D. (acsawdey@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 21-Dec-2024 06:22:11 JST Aaron Sawdey, Ph.D.

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     @foone Please don't, somebody will have to build a computer with a floating point format that uses a base-3 mantissa.