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I put real in quotes for a combination of at least the following reasons: * "real" as in real numbers instead of integers. * to acknowledge the fact that comp
by kbd 10y ago
I put real in quotes for a combination of at least the following reasons:
* "real" as in real numbers instead of integers.
* to acknowledge the fact that computer division is only ever an approximation of real numbers.
* real as in "what division actually means". Only in computers would you expect 1/2 to be 0. If you're doing math, you express that with something like floor(1/2) (don't have time to copy/paste floor bracket symbols).