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Stop using floats (lemmy.world)
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[–] Magnetar@feddit.de 15 points 8 months ago (10 children)

Call me when you found a way to encode transcendental numbers.

[–] ytg@feddit.ch 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Magnetar@feddit.de 1 points 8 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!

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