20 Dec
2007
20 Dec
'07
4:41 a.m.
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Frank Barknecht wrote:
as an abstraction called: [funtil] It will bang 1000000000000 times unless stopped, which is more bangs for the bang than most people would want.
no, 1000000000000 as a float is non-representable and will be rounded to the closest number within float32, which is 999999995904. Then it will cause an overflow, which will transform the value to -727384064, which will cause 3567583232 iterations.
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