Comment on What every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic (1991) [pdf]parentComments−17186274405moFun fact: "base 10" is meaningless, because every base calls itself base 10Maybe we should name the bases by the largest digit they have, so that we are using base 9 most of the time.
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Maybe we should name the bases by the largest digit they have, so that we are using base 9 most of the time.