#floating point

[ccmoatyim]

I am, like, really enthusiastic about floating-point numbers. Idk. I think it's just because they are needlessly hated on by some software developers who never learned the details of the IEEE standard and seem to think floats encounter rounding errors at random. I guess I just like to be counterculture like that. I saw that Audacity said my encoding was 32-bit float and I was like "hell yeah, 24 bits of precision (23 explicit, 1 implicit), 8-bit mantissa, and 1 sign bit? You go, digital audio workstation!"

[hyperoperationfractallisation]

Idea: floating point but make it floating

[michaelrotonal]

evil floating point facts!

Addition is not associative

Multiplication is not associative

Multiplication does not distribute over addition

NaN

If you square root a number and square it you could get a different result

If you square a number and square root it you could get a different result

0 == -0 but 1/0 != 1/-0

[jasmineleeplays]

An ambush by a whole army of Cluckers...

At the Floating Point

Backdoor beach with Luna.

[radicalhelmet]

i need an MMO where choosing "male" or "female" doesn't flip a binary switch in the game's code but instead randomly assigns a dense network of interconnected parameters exhibiting a bimodal distribution across players on average but with considerable variability within and between groups

i need an MMO where i can be assigned intersex due to a floating point rounding error

[asspull3x]

Just found out floating point is fucking broken. I haven't the tools, knowledge, or means to even begin finding out why, let alone fix it...

[gnightofthegnomes]

[janmisali]

how floating point works