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Julia Evans Apr 4, 2023

trying to figure out a title for this "how your CPU represents integers and floating point numbers" zine

so far the best idea is "inside the machine: integers and floating point" but that's not great

@b0rk Knuth’s book on it was “Semi-numeric algorithms”, which I didn’t understand and didn’t read it for years because I thought it wasn’t numbers, but true numbers to a mathematician aren’t the finite approximations we have inside the machine. It is a great read on numbers in computers tho.