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Facebook invented a new time unit called the ‘flick’ and it’s truly amazing
- em3rgent0rdr 9y agosource discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16207913 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16207913
- hmm_really 9y agoSign of the times I guess, what would of once of been a neat C macro, is now marketing news in the tech industry.
- jjaredsimpson 9y agoLeast common multiples are amazing tech now.
- geezerjay 9y ago> what would of once of been a neat C macro I agree on the overboard marketing spiel but the idea is actually rather clever.
- CyberDildonics 9y agoI wish we could skip the commentary part of the headline that is a signature part of clickbait.
- asudghionbio 9y agoI wish people were more willing to use rational numbers in programs. Rather than leaving something as 1/24, people almost always perform the division and wind up with a float. I've never seen rationals in a codebase. And that's a shame, because they do some things elegantly.
- dahart 9y agoI've had to use rationals for Project Euler. You could think of fixed point as a type of rational. ;) In computer graphics we sometimes use rational curves. It's not the same as rational numbers, but related.
- throwaway080383 9y agoI think the problem is that the numerator and denominator in reduced form can easily get pretty big, even if the magnitude of the number itself isn't all that big. E.g. in the rational number 1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + ... + 1/24, the denominator already can't fit in a 32-bit int.
- wiml 9y agoYou can reasonably efficiently find the nearest rational number whose numerator and denominator fit in a given sized type. This means your rationals are imprecise, just like floats; the sparse subset of numbers they can represent exactly is different from floats' (and possibly more useful).
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