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arrow-up1793imageIEEE 754cdn.fosstodon.orgEphera@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square41fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: science_memes@mander.xyz
minus-squarelone_faerielinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·4 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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