▲ 898 ▼ It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes (defector.com) submitted 1 year ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/technology@lemmy.world 82 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (5 children) A worthy successor to the 65535 Excel bug. permalink fedilink source hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago (3 children) One of the many random numbers that live rent free in my head lol permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (2 children) There is nothing random at all about that number! It's the largest number that can be represented by sixteen bits, i.e., (2^16 - 1). permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 child) Every number is random. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago No permalink fedilink source parent [–] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago even then the number was actually stored correctly, it's just excel lies to you and shows you a different number. This AI will stack wrong calculations on top of wrong calculations and cascade everything. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago (3 children) One of the many random numbers that live rent free in my head lol permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (2 children) There is nothing random at all about that number! It's the largest number that can be represented by sixteen bits, i.e., (2^16 - 1). permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 child) Every number is random. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago No permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (2 children) There is nothing random at all about that number! It's the largest number that can be represented by sixteen bits, i.e., (2^16 - 1). permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 child) Every number is random. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago No permalink fedilink source parent
[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 child) Every number is random. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago No permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago even then the number was actually stored correctly, it's just excel lies to you and shows you a different number. This AI will stack wrong calculations on top of wrong calculations and cascade everything. permalink fedilink source parent