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In response to "You guys took math in school, right? -- nm" by nubby

I did. But I didn't take theory classes, and I'm mostly just fooling around on B2 based on floating point math in programming. -- nm

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) Dec 12 '12, 09:59

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(Floating point math is an extra shortcut computers take ... it's how you can get things like 0.2 + 0.2 + 1 = 1.3999) -- nm - Beryllium Dec 12, 10:01 4
- maybe this is why in ika my crystal mine shows 599 workers, but I still produce 600 product - dogbert Dec 12, 10:07 2
  - There's a lot of fudgery at work in floating point math, it's very bad to use it for things like financial transactions -- nm - Beryllium Dec 12, 10:08 1
    - sidenote: Guess what one of my projects at work is doing? - Beryllium Dec 12, 10:08
- *confused gaze* -- nm - znufrii Dec 12, 10:01

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