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> floating point isn't madness, but people thinking it represents the real numbers without stopping to consider how it works is madness This is certainly true
by Igelau 5y ago
> floating point isn't madness, but people thinking it represents the real numbers without stopping to consider how it works is madness
This is certainly true in some places, but I would wager that a large number of JS devs are completely ignorant of floating point, and many of them likely lack the background knowledge to understand it.
- cratermoon 5y agoNo need to pick on JS. Most devs in any mainstream language are ignorant of how IEEE754 floating point works. In the 2000s, it was Java developers. In the 90s, Perl programmers. Today it's JS and Python. In another 10 years, it could be Rust. https://0.30000000000000004.com/ https://0.30000000000000004.com/
- Igelau 5y agoNot picking on JS. It's just the best representative of the problem right now.