Ephera@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 months agoIEEE 754cdn.fosstodon.orgimagemessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up1855arrow-down17file-text
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minus-squarelone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·4 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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