HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 22 hours agoI have a 64-bit genderlemmy.mlimagemessage-square60fedilinkarrow-up1404arrow-down130
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minus-squaredavel [he/him]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·22 hours agoMy gender is e, which can be represented by neither integers nor floating points.
minus-squareRentlar@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up22·22 hours agoCan it be expressed or represented approximately in IEEE-754 form?
minus-squaredavel [he/him]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36·edit-220 hours agoAlways approximated, never truly represented 😞
minus-squareLegoBrickOnFire@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-219 hours agoUnless your encoding has a special value that, by definition, is euler’s constant :p
minus-squaredavel [he/him]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·19 hours agoGood point. Specifically code point U+2107 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ℇ
minus-squareidunnololz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 hours agoAh so ur gender can be represented in UTF 8.
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·20 hours agoEverything can be represented approximatively. e = π = 3
My gender is e, which can be represented by neither integers nor floating points.
Can it be expressed or represented approximately in IEEE-754 form?
Always approximated, never truly represented 😞
Unless your encoding has a special value that, by definition, is euler’s constant :p
Good point. Specifically code point U+2107 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ℇ
Ah so ur gender can be represented in UTF 8.
Everything can be represented approximatively.
e = π = 3