A real computer using NaN and Inf instead of 1 and 0 [video] (youtube.com) 3 points by willlll 7y ago ↗ HN
[–] xelxebar 7y ago ↗ > IEEEuler's identity I'm in stitches here.On a more serious note, is there a way to treat IEEE floats as some nice algebraic structure? I recently learned that associativity is broken, so I started thinking that it'd be nice to study floats in their "native environment" per se.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 9.5 ms ] threadOn a more serious note, is there a way to treat IEEE floats as some nice algebraic structure? I recently learned that associativity is broken, so I started thinking that it'd be nice to study floats in their "native environment" per se.