2025-01-19

[EN] Two "Numerical" Adages

"A double blessing is a double grace."
(William S.)
So:
A float blessing is a float grace.
(William K., in the domain of)

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Notes.

K., Kahan.

Float, short for floating point, is an important and much used representation of fractional numbers in computers.
Double, short for double precision, is a specific case of this representation used to reduce approximation errors in calculations.
William Kahan is a very prominent expert in the field of numerical analysis and calculations with computers in general.

Leaving as an exercise the well-known rule of the card game of bridge, "a redouble doubles the doubled value".

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[EN] A Curio about the Digits of Pi

;;;; pi-digits.cl -*- mode: lisp; -*- ;;; Illustrate a curio about the first 40 (decimal) digits of π. ;;; Time-stamp: <2025-07-22 16:52...