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Pretty sure GP was making a sarcastic comment referencing how floating point is notorious for subtle rounding issues when handling values that have an exact rep
by Merad 4y ago
Pretty sure GP was making a sarcastic comment referencing how floating point is notorious for subtle rounding issues when handling values that have an exact representation in base 10 but a repeating pattern in binary.
- fnordpiglet 4y agoYeah. Given we’ve moved from counting on our fingers to counting on our computers we need a new base 2 metric.