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IEEE 754
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A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
Rules
This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
Writing floating point emulation code?
I'd pretty much avoided learning about floating point until we decided to refactor the softfloat code in QEMU to support additional formats.
The very wide majority of IT professionals don't work on emulation or even system kernels. Most of us are doing simple applications, or working on supporting these applications, or their deployment and maintenance.