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[-] Cevilia 17 points 1 month ago

Ah, Python. It might not be fast, but it gets it right in the end. :)

[-] barubary@infosec.exchange 8 points 1 month ago

$ python3 -c 'f = (lambda x: x + 0.5 - 0.5); print(f(2**52))'  4503599627370495.5

[-] Cevilia 12 points 1 month ago

Ahh, contrived examples of floating point errors. I haven't seen those since I asked Javascript to add 0.1 and 0.2 :)

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