silence7@slrpnk.net to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoIt Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimesdefector.comexternal-linkmessage-square81linkfedilinkarrow-up1941arrow-down111
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minus-squareDirkMcCallahan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·6 months agoA worthy successor to the 65535 Excel bug.
minus-squarewhoisearth@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·6 months agoOne of the many random numbers that live rent free in my head lol
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·6 months agoThere is nothing random at all about that number! It’s the largest number that can be represented by sixteen bits, i.e., (2^16 - 1).
minus-squarebountygiver [any]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 months agoeven then the number was actually stored correctly, it’s just excel lies to you and shows you a different number. This AI will stack wrong calculations on top of wrong calculations and cascade everything.
A worthy successor to the 65535 Excel bug.
One of the many random numbers that live rent free in my head lol
There is nothing random at all about that number! It’s the largest number that can be represented by sixteen bits, i.e., (2^16 - 1).
Every number is random.
No
even then the number was actually stored correctly, it’s just excel lies to you and shows you a different number.
This AI will stack wrong calculations on top of wrong calculations and cascade everything.