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Look at what they need to mimic a fraction inaccurately.
The fundamental mathematical nature of how binary floating point values are stored means that extremely straightforward and rational (in the mathematical sense of the term) base-10 arithmetic can surprisingly often yield results that are irrational (again, mathematically) in binary - hence why you’ll sometimes see a result of 3.000000000101325 or something like that in places where you’d expect the result to be simply 3.0
Yep. Open your browser’s console and do
.1 + .2and you get0.30000000000000004.One of the reasons not to use floating point when working with money.
What’s the right way to do money math without floats?
Use a dedicated data type or library. Some languages also have something like python’s Decimal type
>>> .1 + .2 0.30000000000000004 >>> Decimal(".1") + Decimal(".2") Decimal('0.3')The same IEEE spec that introduced base-2 floating point models was updated in 2008 to include some base-10 models that eliminate these issues. Many languages already support them natively, as well as most database engines. Otherwise, you can probably find third-party-library support.
If you don’t have access to an IEEE decimal implementation, or if you just wanna be a rulebreaker, the common strategy is to just store only plain integers, and the precision level you want. So, say, if you’re just dealing with simple american dollars, you’d just make sure to always interpret the integer value as “cents”. If you need more precision than that, you might do “millicents”.
i see what you’re trying to say, but that’s not what rational and irrational means (mathematically).
It’d be more correct to say round or unround.
Irrational specifically means infinite non-repeating decimal values, or equivalently that a number can’t be represented as any fraction. This is independent of number system.
Sometimes “more irrational” is used as a way of saying further from any small-integer fraction by some measure, but that doesn’t really work here.
I think you could argue that they’re actually trying to mimic real numbers.
Cause fractions can be figured out in context. You can store the numerators and have the denominator as a constant in the code.
You can also have a type which does it. Raku has a Rational type for this.
Part of my first programming courses in the 90s in C were creating a native fraction type.
Python has the Fraction type, and there are many more
Eviltoasts pict-rs is being silly again
unrelated but the image shows so low res (86x96) that it’s unreadable, is this different for everyone else?
what mine shows - https://eviltoast.org/pictrs/image/44915c44-8836-4961-bd06-a45bba04408a.jpeg
The link you gave shows hires for me. Can you try loading in incognito?
just pict-rs things I guess 🤷
hmm very weird. i also tried wget and it grabs the same 86x96 file. https://termbin.com/gvg9
Weird. My wget gives full resolution. No redirect options or anything. Only difference is the IP resolve for you is in Korea and mine is in the US. Likely just closest server resolve.
Try curl with -L set?
Or I’d be curious if something like gallery-dl resolves the image in finding the higher resolution and what the difference is if it does.
Maybe it’s a DNS issue if not a redirect issue.
My guess is DNS. Try with another provider?
You’re right! 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare) or my ISP’s DNS seems to be weird. Works correctly with 9.9.9.9 (Quad9).
Awesome!
