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minus-squarejaupsinluggies@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 month agoStatistician: 1+1=sqrt(2)
minus-squareRose@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoComputer science: 2+2=4 (for integers at least; try this with floating point numbers at your own peril, you absolute fool)
minus-squarecally [he/they]@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month ago0.1 + 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004
minus-squaregandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agocomparing floats for exact equality should be illegal, IMO
minus-squaresocsa@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoFreshmen engineer: wow floating point numbers are great. Senior engineer: actually the distribution of floating point errors is mindfuck. Professional engineer: the mean error for all pairwaise 64 bit floating point operations is smaller than the Planck constant.
minus-squareWR5@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 month agoI mean as an engineer, this should actually be 2+2=4 +/-1.
minus-squaregandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agounits don’t match, though
Engineer. 2+2=5+/-1
Statistician: 1+1=sqrt(2)
Computer science: 2+2=4 (for integers at least; try this with floating point numbers at your own peril, you absolute fool)
0.1 + 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004
comparing floats for exact equality should be illegal, IMO
Freshmen engineer: wow floating point numbers are great.
Senior engineer: actually the distribution of floating point errors is mindfuck.
Professional engineer: the mean error for all pairwaise 64 bit floating point operations is smaller than the Planck constant.
I mean as an engineer, this should actually be 2+2=4 +/-1.
pi*pi = g
units don’t match, though