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I am, like the author, consistently surprised at how few "programmers" understand this. Baffles me.
by aisofteng 9y ago
I am, like the author, consistently surprised at how few "programmers" understand this. Baffles me.
- biocomputation 9y agoMost people, including programmers, are not used to building numbers from numbers past basic arithmetic on digits from 0-9. Floating point numbers use scientific notation which is rarely used by anyone, even programmers. When was the last time you expressed a large-ish number in scientific notation when you were working on paper? Yeah, me either!