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It's a common misconception that types exist on computers. In reality every…
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@kura That's 4 integers living together.Mom, dad, 2 kids.πŸ˜‰ @eniko
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@eniko all bits, there are 10 people in the world, this who understand binary, …
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@eniko unless you're using an analogue computer in which case everything is…
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@sinbad @eniko NO because at atomic level energy is quantized so we can't r…
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@gilesgoat That really depends on how universe / reality works.There are some i…
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@eniko @kenshirriff .. and in the end it's all only '1' and '0&…
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@eniko "Are the integers signed or unsigned?""Yes"
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@kojack correct
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@eniko everything is just bits
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@kura those are integers
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@eniko @kura even the simd vectors are integers, or floats, still fits in the t…
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@eniko @kura some architectures like cheri have pointers as a distinct type tho…
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@eniko @kura aka sparkly integers
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@eniko Itanium weirdly has special non-integer "NaT" (not a thing) va…
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@Reiddragon booleans are nothing more than a half-assed attempt to make a rock …
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@eniko Relevant: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/scalars
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@j_bertolotti distance through apple-space makes sense to me
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@eniko You have the heart of a Mathematician πŸ˜‰
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@eniko But they have to be from the Floatin' region, otherwise they are jus…
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@eniko Intergers are just an illusion, brought on by having more than one bit.
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@eniko i thought integers are booleans but fancy
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@eniko sign, exponent, mantissa, it's integers all the way down
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@jonathan does any architecture have pointers that aren't integers though? …
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@sinbad * finite precision real number πŸ˜‰ @eniko
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@eniko this is what makes both FORTH and BCPL so pure
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@eniko not to be more pedantic that the average fediverse bro πŸ€“ but your sta…
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@FandaSin @gilesgoat @eniko ha OK I never did subatomic physics, I guess if the…
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@eniko types exist on the computer as soon as you have to worry about calling c…
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@eniko floating point numbers are just two integers wearing a trench coat
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@gilesgoat @sinbad @eniko Take this with a grain of salt, since I haven't w…
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@gilesgoat @sinbad @eniko For movement, the answer depends on the exact questio…
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@gilesgoat @sinbad @eniko That said: My QM knowledge stops at Second Quantizati…
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@eniko A computer is just a really tiny really huge DIP switch array.
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@openrisk @eniko https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/real_programmers.png
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@eniko Aren't integers just bytes living together? Or are bytes also padded…
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@eniko What about qubits?
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@sinbad Now you're adding waves to it!πŸ‘ My brain stops working when I tr…
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@Themikina bytes are integers
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@soulsource @sinbad @eniko To this date I never "fully understood" wh…
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@gilesgoat @sinbad @eniko Honestly, I don't know how to imagine them either…
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@eniko I used to work a lot with Forth. The early designs didn't support fl…
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@eniko The only native type is 8-bit char.
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@eniko #NotAllComputers !The Rational R1000 computer had hardware types.It proc…
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@eniko your CPU's types are:- word- minimum addressable data ("atoms&q…
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@eniko floats are just two integers in a trenchcoat
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unless explicitly declared as integer.@eniko I'll get my coat. πŸ₯Ό
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@TheLancashireman @eniko IMPLICIT NONE#atheistFortran
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@eniko `typedef float spicy int`
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@eniko @Themikina Ints are integers with arbitrary range limits.Unsigned Ints a…
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@brouhaha @eniko
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@soulsource @sinbad @eniko Of course you may have heard of 'that question&#…
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@eniko well in cheri they're more than integers. They're locations + ac…
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@CryogenicIce9 @eniko Not in Fortran IV πŸ˜‚ (although you could use something…
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@eniko there are no types if you dare ignore memory alignment like a pro
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@gilesgoat @sinbad @eniko It can't directly jump to an orbital with zero ov…
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@eniko surely implying so-called "integers" are actually just a degen…
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@eniko floats are just three integers in a trench coat!
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