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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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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

Writing floating point emulation code?

I'd pretty much avoided learning about floating point until we decided to refactor the softfloat code in QEMU to support additional formats.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    The very wide majority of IT professionals don't work on emulation or even system kernels. Most of us are doing simple applications, or working on supporting these applications, or their deployment and maintenance.

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