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All right. Let's settle something here. The word irregardless - is it a word or is it not a word? Well, this is a debate that Merriam-Webster is now weighing in on in a tweet saying that it is, in fact, a word. And that has led to a whole lot of reaction online.
Merriam-Webster has confirmed that "irregardless" is a word in the dictionary, despite concerns from teachers that it is not.
So fellow Soylentils, irregardless of my opinion, what do your think?
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(Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Monday July 13 2020, @02:56PM (8 children)
I can't tell you the sadness this idea makes me feel.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday July 13 2020, @03:28PM (7 children)
There should be no emojis for that.
Oh nooooes!
My code that fixes all "irregardless" to be "regardless" also fixes all "irrigation" to be "rigation".
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday July 13 2020, @07:53PM (6 children)
Does it also change “irrational” to “rational”? Because that might explain why people seem no longer to be able to distinguish those two. :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday July 13 2020, @07:58PM (5 children)
Once you realize that 64 bit floating point can represent every possible rational and irrational number, it no longer matters.
Then you can look forward to 128 bit floating point which can actually represent all possible rational and irrational numbers that did not have an exact representation under 64 bit floating point.
Then you can look forward to 256 bit floating point, etc.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday July 13 2020, @08:12PM (3 children)
Wrong. Indeed, it cannot even represent one third. It only can represent dyadic fractions, and even there only a finite subset of them.
If your previous sentence had been true, then this would say that a 128 bit floating point can represent exactly the same numbers as a 64 bit floating point.
Of course in reality this sentence is as wrong as the previous one. Also a 128 bit floating point only can represent a subset of the dyadic fractions, but a larger subset of them.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday July 13 2020, @08:59PM (2 children)
Shirley with 256 bit floating point we could represent every conceivable rational and irrational number that can possibly exist.
Until 512 bit floating point comes along.
Maybe you detect a pattern here. If 32 bit floating point could represent every possible number, then why would we need 64 bit floats, 128 bit, etc.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday July 14 2020, @05:46AM (1 child)
No. But that was exactly what you claimed.
To quote your post I replied to:
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday July 14 2020, @02:02PM
I did not use any <no-sarcasm> tags.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Monday July 13 2020, @08:41PM
Then you can look forward to 256 bit floating point, etc.
With 256 bits of floating point, I would expect to be able to represent inconceivable and incomprehensible numbers as well
as the irrational ones.
What happens with sinking point numbers? (only available on Pentiums)
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