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The difference between decimal and binary is essential to understanding the problem. Just as there's no elegant way to represent 1/3 in base 10, there's no eleg
by mark-r 7y ago
The difference between decimal and binary is essential to understanding the problem. Just as there's no elegant way to represent 1/3 in base 10, there's no elegant way to represent 1/10 in base 2.
- chronolitus 7y agoyour comment led me to wonder why we commonly represent real numbers as floating-point in computing, and not, for example, as fractions. https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/7810/why-not-use-fractions-instead-of-floating-point https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/7810/why-...