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submitted 3 weeks ago by tfm@europe.pub to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Ah, Python. It might not be fast, but it gets it right in the end. :)

[–] barubary@infosec.exchange 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

$ python3 -c 'f = (lambda x: x + 0.5 - 0.5); print(f(2**52))'  4503599627370495.5

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 weeks ago

Ahh, contrived examples of floating point errors. I haven't seen those since I asked Javascript to add 0.1 and 0.2 :)

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