The 2-dragging section is much more efficient if you want to roughly pick arbitrary floats, and gives a better spatial map of the range of possible floats.
The individual bit flips also can be useful. It really depends what you want to use it for.
Re:Float Toy
by TazeTSchnitzel on Thursday January 23, 2020 @03:40AM
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You can click to flip individual bits on float.exposed too, and they don't have “the same number of digits”…?
They do have the same number of decimal digits displayed. You can see it by clicking between "float" and "double": the decimal representation stays the same.
Re:Float Toy
by TazeTSchnitzel on Thursday January 23, 2020 @06:21AM
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What is wrong with that?
It makes it look like they have the same precision (well also, going from 64 to 32 bits zeros out a whole lot, which contributes to that impression). In fact, both decimal representations are usually truncated, and don't accurately represent the binary floating point number. It's a neat and useful tool regardless, and I'm being a bit pedantic.
But most importantly I think best feature of the one in the submission is something it doesn't even mention in the description - it has a "click and drag to write bits" feature that I think is much easier to use/follow than the 2 dragging section on that one.