silence7@slrpnk.net to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 hours agoIt Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimesdefector.comexternal-linkmessage-square80linkfedilinkarrow-up1867arrow-down110
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minus-squareDirkMcCallahan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·20 hours agoA worthy successor to the 65535 Excel bug.
minus-squarebountygiver [any]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·14 hours agoeven 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.
minus-squarewhoisearth@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·19 hours agoOne of the many random numbers that live rent free in my head lol
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-217 hours agoThere 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).
A worthy successor to the 65535 Excel bug.
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.
One of the many random numbers that live rent free in my head lol
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).
Every number is random.
No