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saagarjha
on May 5, 2020
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Floating Point Visually Explained (2017)
Related,
https://float.exposed/
is a great resource: both when trying to see how floating point is laid out, as well as when having to convert between the bit representation and the number for "actual work" ;)
bkanber
on May 5, 2020
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That is great. Also helps remind you that for very large numbers, the precision is in the hundreds-of-thousands.
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