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Re:9999999999999999.0 – 9999999999999998.0 by Aeolun on Saturday January 05, 2019 @07:30PM (#18835423)
Not in many of the CS related majors. Though I guess it is for hard CS.
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Re:9999999999999999.0 – 9999999999999998.0 by jimmaswell on Saturday January 05, 2019 @07:36PM (#18835453)
My CS course at a community college went over the limitations of floats in detail, in the CS class.
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Re:9999999999999999.0 – 9999999999999998.0 by copperx on Saturday January 05, 2019 @11:25PM (#18836562)
How detailed, if I may ask?
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Re:9999999999999999.0 – 9999999999999998.0 by jimmaswell on Monday January 07, 2019 @02:38PM (#18849130)
I remember we learned how the representation worked bit-for-bit, and how it being stored in binary meant it couldn't perfectly represent everything in decimal. 1.01b meaning 12^0 + 02^-1 + 1*2^-2 for example.
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