22 Sep
2017
22 Sep
'17
3:37 p.m.
Unrelated thought: Users might be unsure if the exponent in a hexadecimal float is in decimal or in hex.
I was playing around with float.fromhex() for this thread, and the first number I tried to spell used a hex exponent because that seemed like "the obvious thing"... I figured it out quickly enough, but the actual spelling feels less obvious to me. -- Keeping medicines from the bloodstreams of the sick; food from the bellies of the hungry; books from the hands of the uneducated; technology from the underdeveloped; and putting advocates of freedom in prisons. Intellectual property is to the 21st century what the slave trade was to the 16th.