btaf45@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoBing says Alpha Centauri is 13.6 kilometers from usimgur.comexternal-linkmessage-square119fedilinkarrow-up1564arrow-down122
arrow-up1542arrow-down1external-linkBing says Alpha Centauri is 13.6 kilometers from usimgur.combtaf45@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square119fedilink
minus-squareLarmyOfLone@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoHmm now that I read that article I was thinking about the poor computers who all run on power of 2. What we really should do is switch to base 1024 instead. It makes sense to optimize for the true representation of numbers in these spacecraft. 36.86 pebimeters. Lets make it happen! 🤣
Hmm now that I read that article I was thinking about the poor computers who all run on power of 2. What we really should do is switch to base 1024 instead. It makes sense to optimize for the true representation of numbers in these spacecraft.
36.86 pebimeters. Lets make it happen! 🤣