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0 pointsmark-r6y ago0 comments

The difference between decimal and binary is essential to understanding the problem. Just as there's no elegant way to represent 1/3 in base 10, there's no elegant way to represent 1/10 in base 2.

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chronolitus6y ago

your comment led me to wonder why we commonly represent real numbers as floating-point in computing, and not, for example, as fractions.

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/7810/why-...

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0 pointsmark-r6y ago0 comments

The difference between decimal and binary is essential to understanding the problem. Just as there's no elegant way to represent 1/3 in base 10, there's no elegant way to represent 1/10 in base 2.

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chronolitus6y ago

your comment led me to wonder why we commonly represent real numbers as floating-point in computing, and not, for example, as fractions.

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/7810/why-...

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