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[โ€“] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Can it be expressed or represented approximately in IEEE-754 form?

[โ€“] davel@lemmy.ml 42 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Always approximated, never truly represented ๐Ÿ˜ž

[โ€“] LegoBrickOnFire@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

[โ€“] davel@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] idunnololz@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Ah so ur gender can be represented in UTF 8.

[โ€“] ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

No taxation without approximation!

[โ€“] Valmond@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

Everything can be represented approximatively.

e = ฯ€ = 3