Julia Evansgetting closer to finalizing the table of contents for this zine on how integers and floating point numbers work
the way computers handle numbers is so weird and interesting, it's been fun to spend the last several months reflecting on the ways in which it's weird and trying to break it down
Jeff GriggSmalltalk has Rational Numbers.
Yep; arbitrary fractions.
Pretty Cool!!!
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(But, honestly, business mostly wants decimal fractions with a "sane" number of digits to the right of the decimal point.)
johncarneyau@JeffGrigg @b0rk So does Ruby (possible they got it from Smalltalk).