Julia Evansfloating point representation
Dr. Juande Santander-Vela@b0rk what about denormalized floats? Do you have a visualization for them? I’d say that they represent even more numbers around the 0.0…
@juandesant i might make one later! Have you ever needed to know about denormalized floats? I'm trying to figure out whether explaining it is worthwhile or whether it's more of an edge case that almost nobody ever runs into.
@b0rk I think is something worth knowing about if you really need to manage calculation precision in floating point.
I learned about them for the first time reading about the SANE (Standard Apple Numeric Environment) in the Turbo Pascal for the Macintosh 1.0 manual… circa 1990!