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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
Subject: Re: Everything You Know Is Wrong
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 13:14:08 +0100
Date: 2016-02-29T13:14:08+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87twkrpvcf.fsf@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: n5nbml$v32$1@dont-email.me

Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:

> When I started out in S/W development, I learned some rules, such as,
> "Integer math is much faster than floating point," and, "Memory is
> scarce."

Some of the rules which (apparently) aren't wrong yet:

   http://www.cse.msu.edu/~cse320/Documents/FloatingPoint.pdf

Greetings,

Jacob
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-02-29 12:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-27  0:37 Everything You Know Is Wrong Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-12-27  7:55 ` J-P. Rosen
2015-12-27 17:37   ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2015-12-27  8:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-12-27 17:36   ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-01-04 14:44     ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2015-12-28  9:57 ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-12-28 11:19   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-12-28 16:27     ` Nicholas Collin Paul de Gloucester
2015-12-28 17:30       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-12-28 18:50         ` Nicholas Collin Paul de Gloucester
2015-12-28 20:40           ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-12-29 11:42             ` G.B.
2015-12-29 12:36               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-12-29 13:50                 ` G.B.
2015-12-29 14:06                   ` J-P. Rosen
2015-12-29 14:16                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-12-29 16:31                     ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2015-12-29 17:02                       ` G.B.
2015-12-29 16:57                     ` G.B.
2015-12-29 17:36                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-12-29 17:53                         ` G.B.
2015-12-29 18:09                           ` G.B.
2015-12-29 22:05                           ` Randy Brukardt
2016-01-04 14:51                           ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2015-12-29 21:58                         ` Randy Brukardt
2015-12-28 17:19 ` Nicholas Collin Paul de Gloucester
2015-12-29 23:37 ` darkestkhan
2016-01-05 13:52 ` brbarkstrom
2016-01-10 14:46 ` Michael Erdmann
2016-02-29 12:14 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen [this message]
2016-03-02 14:11   ` vincent.diemunsch
2016-03-02 14:23     ` J-P. Rosen
2016-03-02 15:44       ` Bob Brown
2016-03-02 16:30         ` J-P. Rosen
2016-03-02 16:36           ` Bob Brown
2016-03-02 16:52             ` Bob Brown
2016-03-02 14:32     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-03-02 15:31       ` vincent.diemunsch
2016-02-29 12:27 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
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