A real computer using NaN and Inf instead of 1 and 0 [video]

A real computer using NaN and Inf instead of 1 and 0 [video](youtube.com)

3 points by willlll 7 years ago | 1 comment

xelxebar 7 years ago |

> IEEEuler's identity I'm in stitches here.

On a more serious note, is there a way to treat IEEE floats as some nice algebraic structure? I recently learned that associativity is broken, so I started thinking that it'd be nice to study floats in their "native environment" per se.

xelxebar 7 years ago |

> IEEEuler's identity I'm in stitches here.

On a more serious note, is there a way to treat IEEE floats as some nice algebraic structure? I recently learned that associativity is broken, so I started thinking that it'd be nice to study floats in their "native environment" per se.