Ephera@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 6 months agoIEEE 754cdn.fosstodon.orgimagemessage-square7linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageIEEE 754cdn.fosstodon.orgEphera@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square7linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squarelone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 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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