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Floating point arithmetics (eviltoast.org)

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[–] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 3 months ago

Having the sign bit in front, makes them compare like sign-bit-integers and if they are compared/sorted like 2s-complement integers, the negatives are reversed but still come after the positives.