zachimusprime44@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 20 days agoWhat is the lowest quality product you’ve ever purchased?message-squaremessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down10
arrow-up14arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the lowest quality product you’ve ever purchased?zachimusprime44@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 20 days agomessage-square18fedilink
minus-squareSquibbles@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·20 days agoI bought a cheap scientific calculator for math class. When I tried to multiply .5 by .5 it gave a long irrational number instead of .25. then I had to try to explain to the store clerk why that was wrong before they would accept the return
minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·20 days agoAh floating point math. Works fine for 90% of use cases, until it doesn’t.
minus-squarecornshark@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·19 days agoHmm really? It’s always worked for 90.0001741894164% of use cases for me
I bought a cheap scientific calculator for math class. When I tried to multiply .5 by .5 it gave a long irrational number instead of .25. then I had to try to explain to the store clerk why that was wrong before they would accept the return
Ah floating point math. Works fine for 90% of use cases, until it doesn’t.
Hmm really? It’s always worked for 90.0001741894164% of use cases for me