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Julia Evanstrying 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
Darius Kazemi@b0rk "Numbers Considered Harmful"
historic drystone sheep dyke@b0rk "just a little bit"
Derick Rethans@b0rk Bit Twiddling? đ
Ben Ramsey
Florian Ledermann@b0rk
maybe something along the lines of "counting with 64 fingers" ? but not really a perfect analogy maybe
maybe something along the lines of "counting with 64 fingers" ? but not really a perfect analogy maybe
Ăcole des Bro-Arts@b0rk Whatever you do, make it count!
*ducks* đ
calicoding@b0rk âGet to the point: Fixed vs Floating point numbers and youâ
adb@b0rk A layer deeper it's all integers, and underneath that it's nothing but ones and zeroes. And those are just abstract notations for electrical charges in wee bits of crafted beach sand!
Nelson Minar@b0rk It's as easy as 0.1, 0.2, 0.30000000000000004
William Pietri@b0rk Maybe something like, "Chopped to Bits: fitting all the numbers into a tiny CPU"?
Arturo@b0rk âI _Can_ Count the Waysâ
Michael Wexler@b0rk How about:
"When 1+1 doesn't equal 2"
"It's just a 1. How hard can it be?"
"What's the (floating) point?"
"I do not think the floating point representation means what you think it means" (Princess Bride!)
"Numbers: a bit of this, a bit of that"
Jason D. 
@b0rk see? pee-yew; how computers math it up
B@b0rk âIâve got your number.â
Rev. GothAlice@b0rk I was explaining Turing machines to my sister, and how every bit of memory is just⊠an integer. Everything else is just fancy interpretation. Everything.
Moke 
@b0rk "How bits become numbers"
RSNikhil@b0rk "How CPUs have got your number"
ednl đȘđș@b0rk Probably best to avoid "Representation Theory" because https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representation_theory
Brint@b0rk "The 1, 2, 2.99999 of How Computers Count'
Stéphane Bortzmeyer@b0rk "The anatomy of numbers: how numbers inside the machine look like"
D Pawson@b0rk Computers, me and numbers?
ZaÍ©nÍŠsÍ€tÌÌrÍ€aÌ
ÌÌ@b0rk The Guts of your Computer: integers and floats dissected!
Richard Crowley@b0rk The beginning and the endianness of numbers in computer hardware
felix (grayscale) đș@b0rk "Int internals and floating bits: How does your computer store numbers?"
freeformz đłïžâđ@b0rk
âFloat like a point and sting like an Integer: How a CPU Mathsâ
âFloat like a point and sting like an Integer: How a CPU Mathsâ
Hans HĂŒbner@b0rk From bits to billions: How computers represent numbers
Arne Brasseur@hanshuebner @b0rk that's actually really good :)
robchandhok@b0rk hmmmmm. â A NaN, A plan, how your computer does mathâ âŠI couldnât make the palindrome :-)
Zac@b0rk One point at a time
Chris Vermilion@b0rk âIEEE Except Before C: A History of Numerical Representationsâ
Dave@b0rk numbers in the CPU: the long and the short of it, and everything intbetween âșïž
Aki Tuomi@b0rk "Floating integers pretending to be numbers"
Bynkii@b0rk âA Field Guide To Numerical Phenotypes in CPUsâ
jelte@b0rk Dots & Digits: how computers store numbers
George Dinwiddie@b0rk
Some random ideas:
How Numbers Are Made
Inside Numbers
The Bits of Numbers
Numerical Bits
I hope these might be helpful.
Nate Vack đŽ@b0rk Something Iâve been trying to figure out about big- and little-endian designs: The reason Iâve always felt weird about little-endian integers is that the most-significant bit is on the right and most-significant byte is on the left.
But⊠is that just because of the convention of writing left-to-right? Could you write a 16-bit little-endian int containing â1â as
10000000 00000000
?
Does the hardware fundamentally care or is it just writing convention?
@b0rk Short & simple: "How Computers Count". Catchy: "The Trouble with Numbers". Funny(?): "Entirely Integer & Double Trouble".
Javier đđââïžđ»đđ„đšđȘ@b0rk âComputers and Numbers, a not so easy combination â.
Christian Tietze@b0rk #spitballing -- something with Schroedinger's Cat maybe, inasmuch as: you never know what the float is until you try to use it?
Phi Ί@b0rk The Point of Floats : A Deep Dive into How Computers Represent Numbers
lynn@b0rk I think "how your CPU represents integer and float numbers" is good as is!
maybe "how your CPU sees ints and floats" if you want something shorter
jhx@b0rk
"Inside the CPU: A tale of numbers... and more"
"Inside the CPU: A tale of numbers... and more"
Chris L@b0rk Knuthâs book on it was âSemi-numeric algorithmsâ, which I didnât understand and didnât read it for years because I thought it wasnât numbers, but true numbers to a mathematician arenât the finite approximations we have inside the machine. It is a great read on numbers in computers tho.
@b0rk The private Life of numbers
Jan Lehnardt 
@b0rk The Finite Countdown
Richard Barrell@b0rk "A Short History of Lies We Tell Ourselves In Order to Continue Pretending the Integers and the Reals Are Implementable Within Finite Space and Time"
Tim Bray@b0rk I remember having trouble explaining numeric-resolution problems to a nontechnical friend and I finally realized the key issue they didn't know but we all do is that we want to fit numbers into fixed-size slots. 16/32/64/128 bits. So maybe something like "numbers as bits in slots" or some such.
(Then this smart person asked "what if they won't fit?" and I had to explain about BigNumbers etc, but that's maybe a distraction)
@timbray yeah the zine talks about big integers! I don't think it's a distraction
Claudius (legacy account)@b0rk
Keep it short: "numbers in your computer"
Keep it short: "numbers in your computer"
Thaddeus Quintin@b0rk "Why Numbers Sink, Unless They Float"
Hey, I just `ADD` you.
And this is Craaaazy.
Bits make these numbers.
So `CALL` me Maybe!
Dirk@b0rk âbyting numbersâ?
Merc@b0rk "How your computer stores Pi, and other numbers"? Start with a concrete example of a floating point number people know about?
Tim@b0rk "Bits of Numbers"?
đ„meta physical deflationistđ„@b0rk "12.000000000004 things you didnt learn in grade school math"
Amo a Sam amat@b0rk values beyond (and between) zero and one.