Abandoned

Since infogami has been abandoned by its creators, I’m out too. Back to web.fisher.cx for me. Everything that was here is there.

Robert Fisher

Just thinking out loud

On floating point

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A quote from FloatingPointFractions on c2.com:

“every floating point number is an approximation of an infinite number of nearby non-rational real numbers”


Side note: so-called “banker's rounding” rounds x.5 to the nearest even integer.

  • 0.4 → 0
  • 0.5 → 0
  • 0.6 → 1
  • 1.4 → 1
  • 1.5 → 2
  • 1.6 → 2
  • 2.4 → 2
  • 2.5 → 2
  • 2.6 → 3
  • 3.4 → 3
  • 3.5 → 4