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More floating point alternatives

Here's a preview from my zine, How Integers and Floats Work! If you want to see more comics like this, sign up for my saturday comics newsletter or browse more comics! read the transcript! more floating point alternatives there are many alternative ways to represent numbers These are all implemented in software (not hardware) so they’re a lot slower, and different languages have different libraries. alternative 1: decimal floating point This is like regular floating point, but in base 10 instead of base 2.

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