10 () posted 1 year ago by nothingberg 1 year ago by nothingberg +13 / -3 8 comments share 8 comments share save hide report block hide replies
Technically it's a close approximation. I imagine the bot AI chose floating point arithmetic for numeric expression to get things more precise. This shows the AI design lacks a common sense module.
Floating point makes things less precise, but it's fast.
I'm 99.00000005 e0 % convinced you're right.
A very poor float implementation though. (x - 32) / 1.8 isn't something that should result in rounding errors normally
Cheap offshore programming labor :)
Floating point is built into hardware. Most apps would only show a few decimal places, which hides the error, but it's always there.