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I predict that this post will get approximately 01000011100101100000000000000000

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Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t be irrational

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    • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But floating-point notation also can’t precisely represent irrational numbers…

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      • SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        But some irrational numbers are only so in base 10

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      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What superior method do you propose?

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  • Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s the binary representation of 300 btw

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    • elvith@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sigh, and I wanted to reply with

      It’s over 01000110000011001010000000000000!

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      • tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Man that’s a big factorial

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      • bloubz@lemmygrad.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I have to chose between 9000 and Anakin, hard

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    • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What? Why?

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      • silverchase@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Each section of the binary number represents a different component needed to construct the number 300. It uses clever math to be able to represent decimals. It’s like asking you whether a number is positive or negative, then the position of the decimal point, then what the digits are.

        Specifically…

        The first 0 means the number is positive. The number formed by the next eight bits (the exponent) and the number from the remaining bits (the mantissa) multiply to get 300.

        The exponent bits choose the value of N in the formula 2^N - 127^. For the mantissa, we start with the number 1, then each “1” bit starting from the left adds to it 0.5, then 0.25, and so on. Specifically, we have 2^8^×1.171875.

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    • Tower@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That was a very good guess!

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  • aido@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    FYI OP, Discord breaks external image links after a pretty short period.

    For future generations: Image

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    • Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean it’s fine for me, but if it’s broken for others I’ll just use this one then.

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      • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        For future people here. They’ll disable the link after a few days.

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  • scrion@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Honestly, as far as fresh takes on memes go, I loved that one quite a bit

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  • frezik@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Have had too many debates with senior programmers who don’t understand why multiplying by 0.1 doesn’t work.

    “It works in <favorite language>, why doesn’t it work in <not favorite language>?”

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    • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      BigDecimal go brrrr

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  • BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Where’s my Lil’Endian ?

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  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Such binary thinking.

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  • h4x0r@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    someone xor this mfr rn fr

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  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The weirdest part of learning about floating point was suddenly knowing how to use a slide rule.

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  • inlandempire@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m doing my part

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  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    // what the fuck?

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