voluntaryeuth
Re:Don't worry about global population collapse
on Sunday October 01, 2023 @02:24AM (#37723265)
Yeah, probably.
But if, as hotpotamus suggests, "consent" is a useful way to look at this, then that's not good enough. You can't randomly do surgery on people just because you believe there's a 90% chance they'll be happy with the results.
Re:Lies My Calculator and Computer Told Me [pdf]
on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @09:38AM (#37569784)
Can you point me to a reference?
Every floating point article (including IEEE 754) I've seen treats normal floating point numbers as dyadic rationals.