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| 2025-04-02 19:40:17 +0200 | <c_wraith> | Uh. I suppose I actually mean > 8, < 10 |
| 2025-04-02 19:39:44 +0200 | <int-e> | but the least significant bit has 2x more weight between 2 and 4 than between 1 and 2, so there are cases where you can round more. |
| 2025-04-02 19:39:32 +0200 | <c_wraith> | If the number starts with 8 or 9 |
| 2025-04-02 19:39:21 +0200 | <c_wraith> | yeah.. You can get up to 3 bits in the first digit |
| 2025-04-02 19:38:47 +0200 | <EvanR> | I would think floats is more or less isomorphic between those two intervals. But I guess the relation between decimal and float is not |
| 2025-04-02 19:38:22 +0200 | irssi | Rembane |
| 2025-04-02 19:38:04 +0200 | <int-e> | EvanR: evidence for "this is more likely between 2 and 4 than it is between 1 and 2": https://paste.tomsmeding.com/N7G3UvE3 |
| 2025-04-02 19:38:03 +0200 | merijn | (~merijn@host-vr.cgnat-g.v4.dfn.nl) merijn |
| 2025-04-02 19:36:47 +0200 | irssi | (~Rembane@user/Rembane) Rembane |
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| 2025-04-02 19:35:58 +0200 | Rembane | (~Rembane@user/Rembane) (Quit: WeeChat 4.1.1) |
| 2025-04-02 19:34:49 +0200 | <lambdabot> | "1.5833333333333333" |
| 2025-04-02 19:34:47 +0200 | <int-e> | > show (19/12) |
| 2025-04-02 19:34:13 +0200 | sprotte24 | (~sprotte24@p200300d16f1053003d869356f7727199.dip0.t-ipconnect.de) (Ping timeout: 248 seconds) |
| 2025-04-02 19:33:50 +0200 | <c_wraith> | yeah, it's actually hard to get that behavior from C |
| 2025-04-02 19:33:28 +0200 | <EvanR> | it doesn't produce "shortest representation that would parse back to the original value" |
| 2025-04-02 19:33:16 +0200 | <EvanR> | though %g does produce a shorter version if it would end in zeros |
| 2025-04-02 19:32:53 +0200 | <EvanR> | I guess C is so old they "never thought of it" |
| 2025-04-02 19:32:29 +0200 | <lambdabot> | 1.141592653589793 |
| 2025-04-02 19:32:28 +0200 | <int-e> | > read "1.1415926535897929" :: Double |
| 2025-04-02 19:32:14 +0200 | <EvanR> | c_wraith, right, it seems many languages do this |
| 2025-04-02 19:32:03 +0200 | <lambdabot> | 1.141592653589793 |
| 2025-04-02 19:32:01 +0200 | <EvanR> | > read "1.1415926535897930" :: Double |
| 2025-04-02 19:31:55 +0200 | <lambdabot> | 1.1415926535897931 |
| 2025-04-02 19:31:54 +0200 | <EvanR> | > read "1.1415926535897931" :: Double |
| 2025-04-02 19:31:45 +0200 | <c_wraith> | technically, its operating constraint is that it produces the shortest decimal that parses back to the same bit pattern. |
| 2025-04-02 19:31:25 +0200 | <EvanR> | note to self not a great "random irrational" |
| 2025-04-02 19:31:11 +0200 | sprotte24_ | (~sprotte24@p200300d16f105300edc0583ef9378a6d.dip0.t-ipconnect.de) |
| 2025-04-02 19:31:08 +0200 | <EvanR> | lol, pi is like the only one which is short xD |
| 2025-04-02 19:31:01 +0200 | merijn | (~merijn@host-vr.cgnat-g.v4.dfn.nl) (Ping timeout: 244 seconds) |
| 2025-04-02 19:30:55 +0200 | <lambdabot> | "3.141592653589793" |
| 2025-04-02 19:30:54 +0200 | peterbecich | (~Thunderbi@syn-047-229-123-186.res.spectrum.com) (Ping timeout: 252 seconds) |
| 2025-04-02 19:30:54 +0200 | <EvanR> | > show pi |
| 2025-04-02 19:29:11 +0200 | <lambdabot> | "1.1415926535897931" |
| 2025-04-02 19:29:09 +0200 | <int-e> | > show (pi-2) -- checking that theory |
| 2025-04-02 19:28:24 +0200 | coldmountain | (sid484352@id-484352.helmsley.irccloud.com) (Quit: Connection closed for inactivity) |
| 2025-04-02 19:27:39 +0200 | ash3en | (~Thunderbi@ip1f10cbd6.dynamic.kabel-deutschland.de) (Ping timeout: 246 seconds) |
| 2025-04-02 19:27:31 +0200 | <int-e> | (well, I think) |
| 2025-04-02 19:27:24 +0200 | <int-e> | (it's less likely to use 16 digits between 1 and 2 than between 2 and 4) |
| 2025-04-02 19:26:51 +0200 | <lambdabot> | "1.5707963267948966" |
| 2025-04-02 19:26:49 +0200 | <int-e> | > show (pi / 2) |
| 2025-04-02 19:26:40 +0200 | <lambdabot> | "2.8284271247461903" |
| 2025-04-02 19:26:38 +0200 | <int-e> | > show (sqrt 8) |
| 2025-04-02 19:26:17 +0200 | <lambdabot> | "2.8284271247461903" |
| 2025-04-02 19:26:17 +0200 | merijn | (~merijn@host-vr.cgnat-g.v4.dfn.nl) merijn |
| 2025-04-02 19:26:16 +0200 | <int-e> | > show (sqrt 8) |
| 2025-04-02 19:25:51 +0200 | <EvanR> | looking for a float which haskell prints out with 17 sigfigs instead of 16, to see if DBL_DECIMAL_DIG is not full of shit xD |
| 2025-04-02 19:23:12 +0200 | byte | (~mu@user/byte) byte |
| 2025-04-02 19:16:58 +0200 | byte | (~mu@user/byte) (Ping timeout: 272 seconds) |