• xxce2AAb@feddit.dk
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    Pah, mathematicians and their generally applicable pure approach to solutions and fancy modulus operations, who needs 'em? Computing is applied and we always work with well-defined finite precision. Granted, writing the boilerplate for all possible 64 bit integers is a bit laborious, but we’re programmers! That’s what code generation is for.

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      Granted, writing the boilerplate for all possible 64 bit integers is a bit laborious,

      I’ve been trying to figure out roughly how many lines of code that would equal out to but I’ve run out of fingers.

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      If it works it works. You mathematicians just don’t understand the pragmatics. What is tech debt?