René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Floating point tutorial: \"today (November 2000)\"","articleBody":"# Documentation\r\n\r\nIt [says](https://docs.python.org/3.11/tutorial/floatingpoint.html?highlight=floating#representation-error):\r\n\r\n\u003e Almost all machines today (November 2000) use IEEE-754 floating point arithmetic, and almost all platforms map Python floats to IEEE-754 “double precision”. 754 doubles contain 53 bits of precision, [...]\r\n\r\nThat feels really weird, computer documentation written 22.5 years ago. I don't know what to think of that, whether that can be trusted today. I suggest to update that.\r\n\r\nI also suggest to not start the next sentence with \"754 doubles\" but with \"IEEE-754 doubles\", both for style (don't start a sentence with a digit) and because it reads like a number of doubles instead of the kind of doubles (i.e., like \"3 apples\").\r\n\r\n@mdickinson \n\n\u003c!-- gh-linked-prs --\u003e\n### Linked PRs\n* gh-104681\n* gh-104960\n* gh-104961\n\u003c!-- /gh-linked-prs --\u003e\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/pochmann","@type":"Person","name":"pochmann"},"datePublished":"2023-05-14T16:55:55.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":11},"url":"https://github.com/104479/cpython/issues/104479"}