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ryandrake on Dec 2, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: 0.30000000000000004

Wait, an entire office (presumably full of programmers) didn’t understand floating point representation? What office was this? Isn’t this topic covered first in every programming book or course where floating point math is covered?

Ididntdothis on Dec 2, 2019 [–]

This was in the 90s. We were all self taught and I had never met anyone who had formal CS education.

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