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niloc132
·3 miesiące temu·discuss
Or perhaps obvious parody content, such as the type The Onion might publish.
niloc132
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
JSON is slightly worse than you describe - the JSON language doesn’t restrict you to 64bit floats, but most implementations do as you describe. On the other hand, the JSON language doesn’t support NaNs or infinities, so the union of language and implementation means that in practice JSON is strictly weaker than IEEE 754.
niloc132
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
If you count by threes, the ones place is unique until you pass each multiple of 30 - 3, 6, 9, _8, _1, _4, where was I? I hadn’t made it to 30, ends with a 4, must be 24. 27, 30, 33, _6…

Serves as a sort of checksum, as long as you know roughly how many you have and just the last digit.
niloc132
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
The meteorite believed to have killed the dinosaurs was about 66 MYA, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Paleogene_e... - which is more recent than 124 MYA.