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submitted 1 year ago by Sivecano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[–] Speiser0@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Your meme doesn't work in the age of floating point numbers.

Suggestion: "1.0/x for x>0→0.0 goes against infinity, so 1.0/0.0 is infinity."

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[TREE(TREE)] ↑↑↑ (Busy Beaver)

[–] Blyfh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Any sufficiently large number is indistinguishable from infinity.

Wait. Something's wrong...

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

O(n^m^) = O(1) for all n,m < infinity.

[–] Blyfh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You messed up your formatting there buddy

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

It's maths there's no syntax rules only rough guidelines.

[–] Sivecano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Floats are actually fairly limited in what they can do and you lose a lot of accuracy at some point