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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.π @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 π | |
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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 π @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 π€ 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!π 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. π₯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 π (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! |