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by Animats
1583 days ago
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Right. There's some question as to whether that was seen as a scaling operation or just as part of multiply or divide.[1] If you can scale into a reasonable range for each data type, you don't need 50 digits. But that's an abstraction which came decades after Babbage. [1] https://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/cards.html |
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