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HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 6 months ago

I have a 64-bit gender

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I have a 64-bit gender

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HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml to Programmer Humor@lemmy.mlEnglish · 6 months ago
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    Can it be expressed or represented approximately in IEEE-754 form?

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      Always approximated, never truly represented 😞

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        Unless your encoding has a special value that, by definition, is euler’s constant :p

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          Good point. Specifically code point U+2107 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ℇ

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            Ah so ur gender can be represented in UTF 8.

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        No taxation without approximation!

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      Everything can be represented approximatively.

      e = π = 3

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