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So duckduckgo uses the normal 64bit floating point, and the clever people at bing automatically switch to bignums when needed. But I have no idea what google do

by sampo 8y ago

So duckduckgo uses the normal 64bit floating point, and the clever people at bing automatically switch to bignums when needed. But I have no idea what google does to get that 0?

azhenley 8y ago
I think Google is truncating the numbers. You get 0 even if you do: 9999999999999999 – 9999999999999990
- sampo 8y ago
  9999999999999999 - 9999999999999971 == 0 9999999999999999 - 9999999999999970 == 30 9999999999999999 - 9999999999999969 == 32 9999999999999999 - 9999999999999966 == 34