Ephera to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish • 6 months agoIEEE 754cdn.fosstodon.orgimagemessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1839arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: science_memes@mander.xyz
arrow-up1839arrow-down1imageIEEE 754cdn.fosstodon.orgEphera to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish • 6 months agomessage-square41fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: science_memes@mander.xyz
minus-square@lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglish10•6 months 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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