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IEEE 754 (cdn.fosstodon.org)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
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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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[–] 2 points 2 years ago

I agree we don’t generally need think about the technical details. It’s just good to be aware of the exponent and mantissa parts to better understand where the inaccuracies of floating point numbers come from.

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