Floating points...

Saw this on reddit, didn't know what it meant there either. Is this a precision joke? The english being broken doesn't help.

@Demolishun I think it's valid english, like "Look what they need in order to mimic a fraction"

@12bitfloat look 'into' what they need to mimic a fraction.

look at , etc

Ok here is what I think the joke is:

We need floating point numeric types like Float and Double to represent (mimic?) fractions and Mathematicians find it pathetic because something like 1/3 gets ugly.

The joke is kinda lame because it‘s quite easy to represent fractions with custom types accurately and it‘s obvious that floating point types are a compromise of performance and utility, not just for fractions.

It‘s a bit like making fun of how integer types are limited to a specific range.

@Demolishun Ehh, maybe it's missing a comma

Yup we can always create a custom class, storing the enumator and denominator separately, on construction. Implement the math operations ourselves. But what's the point? Unless you are making a math tutor app for students.

@Demolishun it's a direct quote from invincible with part of the text blacked out, it's just colloquial speech

Oh boy, @-red. This one's for you!

@scor
Rip in peace @-red 😭

@notroot
You should have told me.

@scor XD Felt a change. Lost root access recently.

@notroot
I feel you.
But you really scared me there.
Gotta chroot into that baby, I assume?
Or had you hardened your system?