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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

Scheme and many others. And lots of libraries for C and others.

It's called bignum, or Arbitrary-precision arithmetic.

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