Ephera to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish • 4 months agoIEEE 754cdn.fosstodon.orgimagemessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up1856file-textcross-posted to: science_memes@mander.xyz
arrow-up1856imageIEEE 754cdn.fosstodon.orgEphera to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish • 4 months agomessage-square42fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: science_memes@mander.xyz
minus-square@lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglish10•4 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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