silence7@slrpnk.net to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoIt Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimesdefector.comexternal-linkmessage-square81linkfedilinkarrow-up1941arrow-down112
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minus-squareFrezik@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoHow long back? IEEE 754 floating point was released the same year as Excel v1, and it’d be a while before there was hardware support. Floating point numbers were often dodgey back then on just about everything.
How long back? IEEE 754 floating point was released the same year as Excel v1, and it’d be a while before there was hardware support. Floating point numbers were often dodgey back then on just about everything.