Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes

DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• bountygiver@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  even then the number was actually stored correctly, it’s just excel lies to you and shows you a different number.

  This AI will stack wrong calculations on top of wrong calculations and cascade everything.

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• whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One of the many random numbers that live rent free in my head lol

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There is nothing random at all about that number! It’s the largest number that can be represented by sixteen bits, I.e., (2^16 - 1).

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    • whoisearth@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Every number is random.

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      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No

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