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saraid216 on March 20, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Speaking JavaScript

"In current and common use" is not actually the opposite of "cryptic and ancient".

sitkack on March 21, 2014 [–]

I get your point, but....

Ancient it is not, and old isn't bad. Lots of deep thinking went into IEEE-754, http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/ieee754status/754story.ht... calculating with computers is hard work.

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