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Title: Got some bad news for y'all guys
Post by: kotu on June 06, 2017, 02:31:36 PM
(http://img4.imagetitan.com/img4/small/16/16_dsc0000108.jpg) (http://img4.imagetitan.com/img.php?image=16_dsc0000108.jpg)

oh yes
Title: Re: Got some bad news for y'all guys
Post by: Yuki on June 06, 2017, 07:24:48 PM
oh no
Title: Re: Got some bad news for y'all guys
Post by: kotu on June 06, 2017, 07:25:17 PM
i'm afraid so
Title: Re: Got some bad news for y'all guys
Post by: Unicorn on June 06, 2017, 07:29:44 PM
ok.
Title: Re: Got some bad news for y'all guys
Post by: kotu on June 06, 2017, 07:34:38 PM
yes. it sucks, doesn't it?? why were we told to use floating point numbers in the first place when they don't even exist? it is awful.
Title: Re: Got some bad news for y'all guys
Post by: Yuki on June 06, 2017, 08:33:28 PM
guess you have a point (https://books.google.ca/books?id=sS7aPtrUuw4C&pg=PA66&lpg=PA66&dq=floating-point+numbers+aren't+real&source=bl&ots=-hi2VW_jsT&sig=DdOaozHr03OlNzBXlgcFJLLw8nQ&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiPnrbAh6rUAhWg3oMKHXKBAR4Q6AEIQDAD#v=onepage&q&f=false)
Title: Re: Got some bad news for y'all guys
Post by: Unicorn on June 07, 2017, 04:49:05 AM
how bout a floating point?
Title: Re: Got some bad news for y'all guys
Post by: kotu on June 07, 2017, 09:33:59 AM
they don't exist!!
Title: Re: Got some bad news for y'all guys
Post by: Yuki on June 07, 2017, 09:47:02 PM
they do

There's one in this post.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    .
Title: Re: Got some bad news for y'all guys
Post by: p2 on June 08, 2017, 08:33:05 AM
could that post be the famous "fake news" Trump warned us about?
(Juju's post, not kotu's)
Title: Re: Got some bad news for y'all guys
Post by: Unicorn on June 08, 2017, 08:38:00 AM
an actual real live floafting point? no way.
Title: Re: Got some bad news for y'all guys
Post by: Dream of Omnimaga on June 09, 2017, 04:20:34 PM
Shouldn't this go in randomness? :P
Title: Re: Got some bad news for y'all guys
Post by: kotu on June 10, 2017, 08:02:42 PM
Not sure where it really should be but the article in question comes from here... a very valuable resource of information for programmers...

http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/97_Things_Every_Programmer_Should_Know (http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/97_Things_Every_Programmer_Should_Know)


*edit*
perhaps this is a good oppurtunity to started a 'recommended programmers books' section?
Title: Re: Got some bad news for y'all guys
Post by: tr1p1ea on June 11, 2017, 02:14:48 PM
Well yeah, not  they aren't real as in 'they don't exist' ... rather they aren't a true representation of a number in reality since their precision is finite.

That does beg the question, are any numbers actually 'real' ... or just something mankind thought up to describe the world around them?
Title: Re: Got some bad news for y'all guys
Post by: kotu on June 11, 2017, 03:49:52 PM
do you mean is anything real?

this is ^