• Rose@slrpnk.net
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    3 days ago

    Computer science: 2+2=4 (for integers at least; try this with floating point numbers at your own peril, you absolute fool)

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      1 day ago

      Freshmen engineer: wow floating point numbers are great.

      Senior engineer: actually the distribution of floating point errors is mindfuck.

      Professional engineer: the mean error for all pairwaise 64 bit floating point operations is smaller than the Planck constant.