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submitted 1 year ago by alphacyberranger@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] karlthemailman@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, that was my guess too. But that just means they could return a long (or whatever the 64 bit int equivalent in java is) instead of an int.

[–] Akagigahara@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Okay, so I dug in a bit deeper. Doubles are standardized as a 64 bit bundle that is divided into 1 signed bit, 11 exponetioal bits and 52 bits for decimal. It's quite interesting. As to how it works indepth, I probably will try to analyze a bit conversion if I can try something