Ephera@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 days agoIEEE 754cdn.fosstodon.orgimagemessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1843arrow-down14file-textcross-posted to: science_memes@mander.xyz
arrow-up1839arrow-down1imageIEEE 754cdn.fosstodon.orgEphera@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square41fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: science_memes@mander.xyz
minus-squarelone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·8 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.