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Stop using floats (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by nifty to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Perhaps you can encode them as computation (i.e. a function of arbitrary precision)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Hard to do as those functions are often limits and need infinite function applications. I'm telling you, math.PI is a finite lie!