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Re:Mathematicians discover a perfect way to multiply (2019) by userbinator on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @07:47PM (#23922778)
The 10^38 caught my attention - I wonder if there's any relationship to the range of IEEE single-precision floating-point?
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Re:Mathematicians discover a perfect way to multiply (2019) by zamadatix on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @08:45PM (#23923085)
(1729^12)/(maxfloat) is roughly 2.0974 so probably just coincidence with one of many common large ranges vs a direct relation.
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