• iocase@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    The coolest part is you can do log math since you have the mantissa and exponent already for extremely fast multiplication and division (+ or - log values)

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      3 months ago

      Is that done in some environments? I think Maxima gives answers as fractions by default, but didn’t know how that worked. And my Casio calculator can stick to fractions and surds up to a point, but I think it’s just using float under the surface and converting back ok until too much rounding error creeps in…