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A comment on John Gustafson’s crusade to replace floating point with something better. Parent comment

Re:John Gustafson’s crusade to replace floating point with s... by deathanatos on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @01:11AM (#20389170)
In case you're like me, reading this comment and thinking "how the heck is 1 plus 1 plus 2-ish like 90 gazillion?", it's:

  >>> (1+1)+2.0**53
  9007199254740994.0
  >>> 1+(1+2.0**53)
  9007199254740992.0
The exponent operator (double star) got transformed into italics apparently.
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Re:John Gustafson’s crusade to replace floating point with s... by pure-awesome on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @03:21AM (#20389642)
Oh! Thank you! The comment makes a lot more sense now!

The newlines also helped, by the way, because I was wondering what putting the two numbers next to each other was meant to indicate.

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