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Re:Higher Quality Random Floats by Aardwolf on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @11:55AM (#37930527)
Maybe depends on the platform? I tried 5e-323 / 6e-323 in javascript console and it returns 0.8333333333333334 (and e-323 should be subnormal for double precision)
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Re:Higher Quality Random Floats by leiroigh on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @01:08PM (#37931587)
Depends on control registers like e.g. MXCSR. It's an utter mess. Consider e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32738206
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