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WTF 🤦 (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 9 months ago by 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works to c/mathmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[–] janet_catcus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

nah... its still just one error: that of transcribing your process.

it's like a cosmic ray randomly changed a digit in the memory cells that hold the stringbuffer prepared to be printed.

and then the computation carries on with the internal representation of the whole process still with correct data.

i understand your profs pov though

[–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

From an engineering standpoint, I don't agree with him. We make errors all the time, it's basically how we learn how to do things the right way (try, fail, repeat). Not to mention rounding errors, we also make GIGANTIC ones (not all the time, but still).

But, he's a mathematician, not an engineer. So, as I said, from a purely mathematical standpoint, yes, he is correct.

[–] janet_catcus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 months ago

well, yeah... xD as i said, i understand that pov. if that printout WAS the process, then yes.

and for an alien that only receives that printout milled into a goldbar attached to a satellite: that would be a bummer ;3