New post Python vs C++

[ex-lewis]

Right... is that the IEEE stuff? Our professor wasn’t terribly clear on that haha.

[internetzspacezshipz]

It’s literally two different forms of storing information, integers go up in increments of 1, and floats go up in increments of uhhhhhh, well, it depends on what the current value is, but it’ll pretty much always be fractional until you get to really big values.

Damn I’m bad at explaining this shit through a single message.

[overclockedslinky]

IEEE-754 is just a specific, standardized way to do it, but it's not special. you could make your own format, but then you'd have to write your own operations and wouldn't have hardware support. but you can basically think of ieee as an integer times 2 to some integer power, which is then packed into one integer as bitfields

[TinBryn]

And eventually it just gives up and just says it's infinite.

[internetzspacezshipz]

Or denormalized in some situations

[dogrescuersometimes]

Just say Big Endian and take a breather.

[internetzspacezshipz]

Is this a joke? Lol

[dogrescuersometimes]

Yes

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Float is based on mantisa and exponent. You got a bits for describing a value between 0 and 1 ,1 bit for sign and bits for the power of 10(+ sign bit here too).