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		userbinator on July 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mathematicians discover a perfect way to multiply ... The 10^38 caught my attention - I wonder if there's any relationship to the range of IEEE single-precision floating-point?

zamadatix on July 23, 2020 [–]

(1729^12)/(maxfloat) is roughly 2.0974 so probably just coincidence with one of many common large ranges vs a direct relation.

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