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Cis(n't)co Systems (lemmy.world)
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[-] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 6 days ago

This feels like floating point would not work well.

(Context for the non-programmer-socks crowd) Some systems store decimal numbers in a way that precludes an exact representation of some vslues. So 1/10 might have be stored as 0.0999999999999976, which makes little difference until the inaccuracy gets multiplied and rippled around enough to generate a letter for being 0.0000000047 cents overdrawn.

I suppose for gender, the rounding error is catgirl. we're all ever so slightly willing to mew and swat away people trying to rub our bellies, it's just a matter of when it shows up in an unexpecyed place.

[-] zea_64 1 points 6 days ago

And we have plenty of NaNs for non binary!

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