I Can't Believe It's Not Zero!Sure, you already know all about positive and negative zero, but are you ready for capital zero? still and sparkling zero?
Tired: 2⁵² distinct NaNs
Wired: 2⁶⁴ distinct zeros
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Fabian Giesen@steve a unique zero in every household
@steve also, I'll have you know, I've done some birthday attack-style sampling and according to these test results, the likelihood of there being only 2^52 distinct NaNs is vanishingly small. have yet to observe a collision in 2^34 values sampled!!!!
moonchild
anukul@steve hoping for a buzzfeed personality quiz that tells me which zero i am
Joe Groff (1M Context)
synlogic@steve thankfully 2^64 zeros is more zeros than anybody will ever need. per The Bill Gates Theorem
corsix@steve So many sparse FLOP/s!
tj usiyan@steve “o standing just so as part of an income tax evasion scheme”
camelcdr@steve When your NULL pointer has padding bits.
dimsumthinking@steve sparkling zero is a scam to get you to pay for it in bottles
@dimsumthinking @steve no number can call itself zero unless its from the nowhere region of France. otherwise its just a sparkling absynth of anything
my faves: Mortal Kombat's Subzero and WW2's Japanese Zero
sharplet@steve the empty set, a.k.a. "I Can't Believe It's Not Zero!”
David Smith@steve mixolydian zero vs aeolian zero
Rob Ricci@steve Zero that is in denial that it's really zero