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aidenn0 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to...

Cool, so next time I have numbers that aren't reals to perform math on, I can use floats.

samatman 8 months ago [–]

Or if you have numbers that aren't integers to perform math on, you can use integers.

It's not a new problem, and it isn't specific to floats. Computers do discrete math. Always have, always will.

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