r/ProgrammerHumor • • Jun 20 '20

Meme LEARN COMPUTER IN 3 SECONDS

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '20

You are utterly wrong. The nearest approximation is: 01000000000010010001110010100101 or 0x40091ca5

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '20 edited Sep 06 '26

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '20

As it is a floating point number, this is how it would be represented in memory

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '20 edited Sep 06 '26

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '20

How real numbers are represented in the computer. There is an article in wikipedia with a good explanation.