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IEEE 754 (cdn.fosstodon.org)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/24332731

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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 (2 children)

How long has this career been? What languages? And in what industries? Knowing how floats are represented at the bit level is important for all sorts of things including serialization and math (that isn't accounting).

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    More than a surface level understanding is not necessary. The level of detail in the meme is sufficient for 99,9% of jobs.

    No, that's not all just accounting, it's pretty much everyone who isn't working on very low level libraries.

    What in turn is important for all sorts of things is knowing how irrelevant most things are for most cases. Bit level is not important, if you're operating 20 layers above it, just as business logic details are not important if you're optimizing a general math library.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Since 2008.

    I've worked as a build engineer, application developer, web developer, product support, DevOps, etc.

    I only ever had to worry about the limits, but never how it works in the background.

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