Re:Floats Are Weird
by bee_rider on Monday February 19, 2024 @01:41PM
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I assume it depends on the department. CS students are afraid of non-integer values, engineering students are afraid of codes longer than 200 lines. Just kidding, mostly.
I do somewhat wonder if numerical methods have suffered from their success; like everybody uses LAPACK via Numpy but understanding it under the hood, that job always belongs to the next department over wherever you are, haha.
I do somewhat wonder if numerical methods have suffered from their success; like everybody uses LAPACK via Numpy but understanding it under the hood, that job always belongs to the next department over wherever you are, haha.