https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/24332731
StolenCross-posted from here: https://fosstodon.org/@foo/113731569632505985
Funny meme, never got why they used a bias instead of two’s complement for the exponent though
Son of a bitch. Actual fifteen seconds of real laughter. Maybe even twenty.
And sometimes it seems irrational.
And other times 0.1 + 0.2 = 0.3000004
And other times 0.1 + 0.2 = 0.3000004
0.1 + 0.2 != 0.3000004
You’re off by 0.000000399999999955991114575226674787700176239013671875
(0.1 + 0.2 is actually 0.3000000000000000444089209850062616169452667236328125)
(And 0.1 is actually 0.1000000000000000055511151231257827021181583404541015625, and so on. People unfamiliar with IEEE 754 may be surprised by the output of
python -c 'print("%.60f" % 0.1)')
