Can you? You can slide it, sure, but to understand how it works you'd have to be able to make one for yourself, and that understanding is the underlying math, s

Can you? You can slide it, sure, but to understand how it works you'd have to be able to make one for yourself, and that understanding is the underlying math, same as with the calculator. Engineers do learn how floats are stored and how computations are done on them to avoid numerical problems while solving whatever differential equations and matrices that they need