{"id":1110,"date":"2005-09-27T13:54:14","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T17:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/27\/floating-point\/"},"modified":"2014-03-28T11:48:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T15:48:30","slug":"floating-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/27\/floating-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Floating Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ridiculousfish.com\/blog\/?p=24\">Peter Ammon<\/a>:\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/ridiculousfish.com\/blog\/?p=24\">\r\n<p>\r\nSo, as a Mac programmer, I should really get a good handle on these\r\nfloating point thingies. But floating point numbers seem pretty\r\nmysterious. I know that they can&rsquo;t represent every integer, but I don&rsquo;t\r\nreally know which integers they actually can represent. And I know that\r\nthey can&rsquo;t represent every fraction, and that as the numbers get\r\nbigger, the fractions they can represent get less and less dense, and\r\nthe space between each number becomes larger and larger. But how fast?\r\nWhat does it all LOOK like?\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Ammon: So, as a Mac programmer, I should really get a good handle on these floating point thingies. But floating point numbers seem pretty mysterious. I know that they can&rsquo;t represent every integer, but I don&rsquo;t really know which integers they actually can represent. And I know that they can&rsquo;t represent every fraction, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[669,30,71],"class_list":["post-1110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-floating-point","tag-mac","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8617,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions\/8617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}