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>The trouble is that we are using base 10 literals together with base 2 numbers. Now that is a really dumb ask. Surely designing computers around the numbers o
by constantcrying 3y ago
>The trouble is that we are using base 10 literals together with base 2 numbers.
Now that is a really dumb ask. Surely designing computers around the numbers of finger we have for no reason is insane. Again, b=10 DOES NOT FIX FLOATS. It has the exact same problems.
>Personally I think Cantor's phony numbers suck
Personally I think they are the greatest description of the continuum.
>I wish Steve Wolfram would grow some balls and reject the axiom of choice.
Yes. Really looking forwards to such hits as "you can't split the continuum" and "points do not exist", contradicting 100% of human intuition.
- PaulHoule 3y agoI don't really want base 2 literals and base 2 numbers, I want base 10. The point is that when the literals don't match your numbers you get particularly strange problems that I think scare people away from computers. We just lose them. The other problems with floating point math create much less cognitive dissonance than that does.
- constantcrying 3y agoIf you do not understand base 2 and why computers use it I am glad that you are unable to effectively program a computer. I actually hope that "we" loose people who do not put in that tiny amount of effort to learn something so simple. They have absolutely no buisiness developing software. If you are unwilling to learn such absolutely basic concepts as what base 2 is, you really should be excluded.