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by marginalia_nu 8 days ago
If it's any consolation, I spent like two years of my life immersed in this field[1] and can still recite powers of three in the same way most nerds can only tell you powers of two, yet I still can't follow this floating point black magic.

[1] behold my misspent youth: https://tunguska.sf.net/

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Fixed point! Not floating. That's the whole trick.
Ah, then it makes at least some sense.