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[–] cyborganism 18 points 1 month ago (29 children)

LOL! Man I learned that in college and never used it ever again. I never came across any scenarios in my professional career as a software engineer where knowing this was useful at all outside of our labs/homework.

Anyone got any example where this knowledge became useful?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] cyborganism 1 points 1 month ago

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.

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