Every single instruction has a concrete usecase. Otherwise they wouldn't exist. but yeah, that one is so extremely specific, it prompted me to make that
why the fuck is it 52-bit integers? that's a data type in literally no language, even if there's some use case where the missing 12 bits are used by the software for metadata or other stuff.
Significand, mantissa, the part after the decimal point. (Or maybe the term “significand” includes the implicit “1.” and so would be 53 bits? I forget.)
Anyway, the part that isn’t exponent or sign, not including the implicit 1, is 52 bits.
Every single instruction has a concrete usecase. Otherwise they wouldn't exist. but yeah, that one is so extremely specific, it prompted me to make that
why the fuck is it 52-bit integers? that's a data type in literally no language, even if there's some use case where the missing 12 bits are used by the software for metadata or other stuff.
Significand in double-precision floating-point.
that's like the part that's not the mantissa?
Significand, mantissa, the part after the decimal point. (Or maybe the term “significand” includes the implicit “1.” and so would be 53 bits? I forget.)
Anyway, the part that isn’t exponent or sign, not including the implicit 1, is 52 bits.