I predict that this post will get approximately 01000011100101100000000000000000

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• aido@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Don’t be irrational

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  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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    • SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      But some irrational numbers are only so in base 10

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    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      What superior method do you propose?

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• Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s the binary representation of 300 btw

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  • elvith@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Sigh, and I wanted to reply with

    It’s over 01000110000011001010000000000000!

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    • tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Man that’s a big factorial

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    • bloubz@lemmygrad.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I have to chose between 9000 and Anakin, hard

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  • Tower@lemm.ee ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That was a very good guess!

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  • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What? Why?

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    • silverchase@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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• scrion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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• frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    BigDecimal go brrrr

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• BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Where’s my Lil’Endian ?

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• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  // what the fuck?

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• h4x0r@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  someone xor this mfr rn fr

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• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Such binary thinking.

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• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m doing my part

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