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This guy manages to, within three sentences, turn a eulogy into a diss of IEEE floating point calculations, only to boast about how his shitty proprietary math
by isoprophlex 7y ago
This guy manages to, within three sentences, turn a eulogy into a diss of IEEE floating point calculations, only to boast about how his shitty proprietary math toolbox does arbitrary precision better.
Just one of many grating examples of how he communicates. He's a genius though, so he has that going for him...
- TeMPOraL 7y agoHe's not wrong, though...
- pas 7y agoThere's a place, a time, and a style for everything though. Were he to include a WolframAlpha link to a working snippet, and mention that you need true decimals, because IEEE floats won't cut it would have probably conveyed the same without what the other commenters perceive as useless boasting.
- Retra 7y agoNot being wrong doesn't absolve you from being deceptive. ("Save up to $1000!") A scientist doesn't hide the truth in fine print and technicalities, they expose it.