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Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10558871 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10558871 (1.5 years ago, 240 comments) https://news.y
by okket 10y ago
Previous discussions:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10558871 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10558871 (1.5 years ago, 240 comments)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1846926 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1846926 (6.5 years ago, 128 comments)
- dxhdr 10y agoSomeone should figure out the mean length of time between article repeats on HN. And then find some correlation with university degrees and job tenure.
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- therealdrag0 10y agoDo you have a hypothesis about what the correlation might be?
- mrcactu5 10y agoI haven't seen it yet... what's with that final four (common to all languages)?
- nitrogen 10y agoFloats can only represent fractions of powers of two. 0.3 is a fraction of powers of two and five. See IEEE754 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_floating_point https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_floating_point https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754-1985 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754-1985
- mmarx 10y ago> See IEEE754 Only in the original 1985 version, however: IEEE 754-2008 actually specifies decimal floating point types; decimal arithmetic was already specified in IEEE 854-1987. Of course, the default representation is almost always one of the binary formats, but that is no longer the only option.