Julia EvansFeb 10, 2023
floating point representation
Show threadJulia EvansFeb 10, 2023
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.

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@b0rk Are you making a zine about floats as well?
Feb 10, 2023 at 10:02pmWeb
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