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db48x on Aug 7, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Java’s floating-point hurts everyone everywhere (1...

IEEE 754 defines decimal floats in addition to binary, but you’ve never used them because no x86 processor has provided hardware implementations of them.

yoz on Aug 7, 2023 [–]

And I always thought that IEEE 754 was the problem. Thank you for opening my eyes!

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