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minus-squaresocsa@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·21 hours agoFreshmen 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.
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.