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Open your browser’s developer console right now and type 0.1 + 0.2. Go ahead, I’ll wait.
You expected 0.3, didn’t you? Instead, you got:
0.30000000000000004
This isn’t a …
Read more →Somewhere right now, a FORTRAN program written in the 1970s is predicting tomorrow’s weather. A COBOL system is processing your credit card transaction. A Lisp-based AI is helping plan a …
Read more →Most developers spend their careers working with a handful of mainstream languages—Java, Python, JavaScript, maybe some C++. But beneath the surface of popular programming lies a fascinating world of …
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