[dahart]

> Why is profanity necessary to convey intensity?

It's not necessary, it's just funny. The owl picture is a meme borrowed from the internet to make the same point you did ... that it feels like math notation skips over the how.

FWIW, spending time in a floating point calculator can be very enlightening. I use this page all the time https://www.h-schmidt.net/FloatConverter/IEEE754.html

A great exercise to try with your son: try numbers of various magnitudes and see what a 1-bit change does to the decimal value. For example, try the earth's radius in meters and determine the FP32 precision in meters at the surface of the earth.