Julia EvansFeb 10, 2023
floating point representation
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Also https://float.exposed by Bartosz Ciechanowski is a great interactive website for poking at floating point numbers
Float Exposed

Floating point format explorer – binary representations of common floating point formats.

Feb 10, 2023 at 7:00pmWeb
Show threadrtnFeb 10, 2023
@b0rk Are you making a zine about floats as well?
Show threadJulia EvansFeb 10, 2023
@rtn the plan is it’s about “how computers represent things in binary”, mostly integers and floats and strings. Probably mostly it’ll be about numbers and not so much about strings though
Show threadpoetasterFeb 11, 2023
@b0rk ciechsnowskis' mechanical watch and internal combustion engine are also amazing... https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
Mechanical Watch – Bartosz Ciechanowski

Interactive article explaining how a mechanical watch works.