Ephera to Programmer HumorEnglish · 4 days agoIEEE 754cdn.fosstodon.orgimagemessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up1839arrow-down15file-textcross-posted to: science_memes@mander.xyz
arrow-up1834arrow-down1imageIEEE 754cdn.fosstodon.orgEphera to Programmer HumorEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square42fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: science_memes@mander.xyz
minus-squarelone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·4 days agoA lot of work has gone into making floating point numbers efficient and they cover 99% of use cases. In the rare case you really need perfect fractional accuracy, it’s not that difficult to implement as a pair of integers.
A lot of work has gone into making floating point numbers efficient and they cover 99% of use cases. In the rare case you really need perfect fractional accuracy, it’s not that difficult to implement as a pair of integers.
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