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  • Anthropyanthropy@mastodon.derg.nz
    Aug 19, 2026, 6:49 PM

    (source unknown, was sent to me in a DM, I tried my best to make some good alt text for it)

    edited 1 minute take from The Incredibles (superhero movie), where Mr Incredible sits down at a big computer in the evil lair, a browser console showing up. slightly tense music plays, as he writes "68 + 1" and it returns "69". He then writes "0.1 + 0.2" and it returns "0.30000000000000004". He then repeats the same with a Python shell, showing the same, slightly-off result. He then googles "0.1 + 0.2 difference in programming languages", finding many programming languages behave this way, as he sighs and rubs his temples, the music getting more tense, like finding out critical details of an important plot. He then googles "WTF is going on" and it shows a Wikipedia page explaining Floating Point arithmetics, and how this was standardized in IEEE 754, after which he runs away from the console again, while the music has gotten more and more tense.
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