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by jankins 2686 days ago
Any mathematical instruction I have found helpful has had a big emphasis on building “intuition“. This post was the first explanation I encountered that explained floating point encoding in a way that was immediately relatable and understandable to me. There are multiple ways to describe a thing, different people have different relationships to a thing which may make some descriptions more well-suited than others, and different people have different goals.