> I'm a senior in a FAANG and I have no fucking idea what a binary floating point representation is.
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> This seems like a very niche thing that only specific types of engineers would need to know.
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> EDIT: For clarification, I know the constraints and when/how to use floating point numbers, but I don't have to know exactly how it's represented in bits unless I'm in charge of writing that
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@fluffy Not understanding at least one of the concrete forms of an abstraction I'm using freaks me out.

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