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Omni-Man looking at the IEEE 754 Single Precision Floating-Point Standard and saying "look what they need to mimic a fraction" with the rest of the meme whited out
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[–] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Mathematicians are just bad at naming things. For example

  • Rings don’t resemble circles

  • Fields aren’t literal open spaces

  • Normal has about 20 different meanings

  • Chaos is not random

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