I understand the need for precision, jeez, philosophy.
Although in fairness I remember learning discrete math and feeling like some of the definitions were along the lines of "a set of numbers is a smaller set of numbers if the number of numbers in the set is a smaller number"
Although in fairness I remember learning discrete math and feeling like some of the definitions were along the lines of "a set of numbers is a smaller set of numbers if the number of numbers in the set is a smaller number"
September 25, 2026 at 10:25 PM
I understand the need for precision, jeez, philosophy.
Although in fairness I remember learning discrete math and feeling like some of the definitions were along the lines of "a set of numbers is a smaller set of numbers if the number of numbers in the set is a smaller number"
Although in fairness I remember learning discrete math and feeling like some of the definitions were along the lines of "a set of numbers is a smaller set of numbers if the number of numbers in the set is a smaller number"
⚡️Ukraine could soon deploy 1,000 interceptor drones per day, defense minister says.
The challenge lies in the number of ground control systems, radars, and related components, some of which utilize artificial intelligence for precision targeting, Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal said.
The challenge lies in the number of ground control systems, radars, and related components, some of which utilize artificial intelligence for precision targeting, Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal said.
Ukraine could soon deploy 1,000 interceptor drones per day, defense minister says
The challenge lies in the number of ground control systems, radars, and related components, some of which utilize artificial intelligence for precision targeting, Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal said.
kyivindependent.com
September 19, 2025 at 6:05 AM
⚡️Ukraine could soon deploy 1,000 interceptor drones per day, defense minister says.
The challenge lies in the number of ground control systems, radars, and related components, some of which utilize artificial intelligence for precision targeting, Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal said.
The challenge lies in the number of ground control systems, radars, and related components, some of which utilize artificial intelligence for precision targeting, Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal said.
i think we should give analog computers another shot. floating point is just a scam by big number to sell more precision
![extremly cool Jetsons looking computer console on legs with ball feet and a small deep monitor, the controls look like a recording studio mixing board.
AKAT-1
Developer Jacek Karpiński and Janusz Tomaszewski
Constructed in 1959 by Jacek Karpiński and Janusz Tomaszewski it was the world's first transistorised differential equations analyzer.
Background
Karpiński built the device at the Polish Academy of Science's Institute of Automatics. AKAT-1 aimed to simulate various complex dynamic processes like thermodynamics, heat transfer or a shock absorber's mechanics.
The device's innovativeness was acknowledged by computer science historians, e.g. Maciej Sysło claims it has to be conceded that Karpiński's effort preceded any other similar device.[3] The construction was also lauded for its aesthetical merits. The panel designed by leading Polish artists Emil Cieślar, Olgierd Rutkowski, Stanisław Siemek and Andrzej Wróblewski at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts had been considered to 'innovatively merge all functions in a congruent and attractive form that anticipated the future trends'. The machine has been domestically welcomed warmly, having been covered by a host of country-wide media, including national television TVP1 and Polish Film Chronicle.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:64mdicpo7sq4k5bx2z3m2jo6/bafkreicbhvhofgx3yhj7lixyg7lrxlkijaxjpixwtt3cjk3k5aiddksruy)
December 30, 2025 at 9:41 PM
i think we should give analog computers another shot. floating point is just a scam by big number to sell more precision
👊🔥 AFU have launched a precision air strike on the location of the Russian troops.
💀 A large number of enemy personnel and valuable military equipment have been destroyed, including RER, EW complexes, and other assets that they were trying to keep in the rear.
💀 A large number of enemy personnel and valuable military equipment have been destroyed, including RER, EW complexes, and other assets that they were trying to keep in the rear.
June 11, 2025 at 7:35 AM
👊🔥 AFU have launched a precision air strike on the location of the Russian troops.
💀 A large number of enemy personnel and valuable military equipment have been destroyed, including RER, EW complexes, and other assets that they were trying to keep in the rear.
💀 A large number of enemy personnel and valuable military equipment have been destroyed, including RER, EW complexes, and other assets that they were trying to keep in the rear.
HIMARS strike with cluster rockets on a forest strip where a large number of Russian soldiers were hiding. According to Ukraine's 225th Assault Battalion, Ukrainians feigned retreat, luring Russian forces to concentrate under the trees—only to be destroyed by precision strikes.
January 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
HIMARS strike with cluster rockets on a forest strip where a large number of Russian soldiers were hiding. According to Ukraine's 225th Assault Battalion, Ukrainians feigned retreat, luring Russian forces to concentrate under the trees—only to be destroyed by precision strikes.
He is number one in Delivering precision machined steel and titanium wreckage to the bottom of the Indian Ocean.
June 10, 2026 at 1:01 PM
He is number one in Delivering precision machined steel and titanium wreckage to the bottom of the Indian Ocean.
9/ …control centres in this area – essentially, the supply line to the front. Drones have been used to target these areas, but only a limited number of high-precision missiles with a heavy warhead have been used, depending on the number of missiles supplied."
August 25, 2026 at 7:31 AM
9/ …control centres in this area – essentially, the supply line to the front. Drones have been used to target these areas, but only a limited number of high-precision missiles with a heavy warhead have been used, depending on the number of missiles supplied."
The Onion has your number
theonion.com/historians-q...
theonion.com/historians-q...
Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society
NEW HAVEN, CT—Calling such concern for linguistic precision a clear indicator of a thriving country, a panel of historians from Yale University issued a statement Thursday announcing that quibbling ov...
theonion.com
April 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The Onion has your number
theonion.com/historians-q...
theonion.com/historians-q...
ahah someone was like "what if you just add a huge number to intentionally trigger floating point precision issues?"
and uh yeah it works 💀 this is so unhinged i love it
sharplab.io#v2:C4LgTgrgd...
and uh yeah it works 💀 this is so unhinged i love it
sharplab.io#v2:C4LgTgrgd...
May 21, 2025 at 10:24 AM
ahah someone was like "what if you just add a huge number to intentionally trigger floating point precision issues?"
and uh yeah it works 💀 this is so unhinged i love it
sharplab.io#v2:C4LgTgrgd...
and uh yeah it works 💀 this is so unhinged i love it
sharplab.io#v2:C4LgTgrgd...
I can still remember the phone number of my mate Gavin from when we were ten.
It is burned into my brain to a perpetual rhythm. Say "three six" to me and i will complete that six digit number with musical, ritual precision.
Ask me my wife's number and i can only tell you the last three digits.
It is burned into my brain to a perpetual rhythm. Say "three six" to me and i will complete that six digit number with musical, ritual precision.
Ask me my wife's number and i can only tell you the last three digits.
October 13, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I can still remember the phone number of my mate Gavin from when we were ten.
It is burned into my brain to a perpetual rhythm. Say "three six" to me and i will complete that six digit number with musical, ritual precision.
Ask me my wife's number and i can only tell you the last three digits.
It is burned into my brain to a perpetual rhythm. Say "three six" to me and i will complete that six digit number with musical, ritual precision.
Ask me my wife's number and i can only tell you the last three digits.
I I’m so hungry I could eat 2^1024 chips… hopefully I can express this exact number in double precision floating point format
January 7, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I I’m so hungry I could eat 2^1024 chips… hopefully I can express this exact number in double precision floating point format
Sometimes when I'm thinking I'm not a good enough programmer, I remind myself that Instagram, a company with ~20,000 employees and ~$70B in annual revenue, shows me the number of likes with 0.1 precision.
April 20, 2026 at 7:38 AM
Sometimes when I'm thinking I'm not a good enough programmer, I remind myself that Instagram, a company with ~20,000 employees and ~$70B in annual revenue, shows me the number of likes with 0.1 precision.
1937 musical comedy Shall We Dance.
"Let's Call the Whole Thing Off".
Performance Detail: According to Rogers, the skating number was specifically designed to be lighthearted, allowing them to laugh at each other while showcasing their precision.
"Let's Call the Whole Thing Off".
Performance Detail: According to Rogers, the skating number was specifically designed to be lighthearted, allowing them to laugh at each other while showcasing their precision.
July 30, 2026 at 1:35 PM
1937 musical comedy Shall We Dance.
"Let's Call the Whole Thing Off".
Performance Detail: According to Rogers, the skating number was specifically designed to be lighthearted, allowing them to laugh at each other while showcasing their precision.
"Let's Call the Whole Thing Off".
Performance Detail: According to Rogers, the skating number was specifically designed to be lighthearted, allowing them to laugh at each other while showcasing their precision.
2. Long-Range & Massed Strike
Especially if Ukraine used that money to invest massively in buying & producing long-range strike weapons, particularly new mass precision strike weapons with low unit cost to gain the number needed to have strategic effect
in ptrnrship w. those European countries.
🧵
Especially if Ukraine used that money to invest massively in buying & producing long-range strike weapons, particularly new mass precision strike weapons with low unit cost to gain the number needed to have strategic effect
in ptrnrship w. those European countries.
🧵
February 19, 2025 at 7:31 AM
2. Long-Range & Massed Strike
Especially if Ukraine used that money to invest massively in buying & producing long-range strike weapons, particularly new mass precision strike weapons with low unit cost to gain the number needed to have strategic effect
in ptrnrship w. those European countries.
🧵
Especially if Ukraine used that money to invest massively in buying & producing long-range strike weapons, particularly new mass precision strike weapons with low unit cost to gain the number needed to have strategic effect
in ptrnrship w. those European countries.
🧵
Hm? I'm single
single-precision floating-point number
going to repeat this joke for +inf
single-precision floating-point number
going to repeat this joke for +inf
September 11, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Hm? I'm single
single-precision floating-point number
going to repeat this joke for +inf
single-precision floating-point number
going to repeat this joke for +inf
There's such a precision in that number. Not £400,000, nor £500,000, but £449,555.68, as though its value is the product of a precise science of luxury calculation.
August 27, 2026 at 1:34 PM
There's such a precision in that number. Not £400,000, nor £500,000, but £449,555.68, as though its value is the product of a precise science of luxury calculation.
Ted Cruz doesn't know much about the country he wants to topple, but he can tell you with a great deal of precision why the Texas legislature has the constitutional power to restrict the number of dildos you can possess.
(It is, incidentally, six.)
(It is, incidentally, six.)
June 18, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Ted Cruz doesn't know much about the country he wants to topple, but he can tell you with a great deal of precision why the Texas legislature has the constitutional power to restrict the number of dildos you can possess.
(It is, incidentally, six.)
(It is, incidentally, six.)
5/ "1) Weapons of destruction
- The number of drones in some areas is off the charts (hanging "eyes" make adjustments, FPV drones are high-precision and effective weapons of low cost and are in widespread use with the enemy).
- The number of drones in some areas is off the charts (hanging "eyes" make adjustments, FPV drones are high-precision and effective weapons of low cost and are in widespread use with the enemy).
April 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
5/ "1) Weapons of destruction
- The number of drones in some areas is off the charts (hanging "eyes" make adjustments, FPV drones are high-precision and effective weapons of low cost and are in widespread use with the enemy).
- The number of drones in some areas is off the charts (hanging "eyes" make adjustments, FPV drones are high-precision and effective weapons of low cost and are in widespread use with the enemy).
HEGSETHS DOD HATES ADMITTING FACTS ON MISSILES, DEATHS
The US is doing whatever it can to obfuscste the number of deaths American forces have suffered in the war on Iran. And US used ‘virtually all’ long-range precision missiles during Iran war, sources say www.militarytimes.com/industry/tec...
The US is doing whatever it can to obfuscste the number of deaths American forces have suffered in the war on Iran. And US used ‘virtually all’ long-range precision missiles during Iran war, sources say www.militarytimes.com/industry/tec...
US used ‘virtually all’ long-range precision missiles during Iran war, sources say
The U.S. Army has reportedly used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during America's five-month war with Iran.
www.militarytimes.com
August 5, 2026 at 6:59 AM
HEGSETHS DOD HATES ADMITTING FACTS ON MISSILES, DEATHS
The US is doing whatever it can to obfuscste the number of deaths American forces have suffered in the war on Iran. And US used ‘virtually all’ long-range precision missiles during Iran war, sources say www.militarytimes.com/industry/tec...
The US is doing whatever it can to obfuscste the number of deaths American forces have suffered in the war on Iran. And US used ‘virtually all’ long-range precision missiles during Iran war, sources say www.militarytimes.com/industry/tec...
Very laudable level of precision, just gently suggesting spreadsheet *displaying* without decimal places (number stays the same obvs).
September 25, 2026 at 1:08 AM
Very laudable level of precision, just gently suggesting spreadsheet *displaying* without decimal places (number stays the same obvs).
8/ "This is a huge resource with a large number of forces and assets. Such operations in the US have been honed for years, literally decades, building a system for conducting such precision strikes using both Delta and other special operations component units.
January 6, 2026 at 8:41 AM
8/ "This is a huge resource with a large number of forces and assets. Such operations in the US have been honed for years, literally decades, building a system for conducting such precision strikes using both Delta and other special operations component units.
And the number of hills/mountains whose names mean hill/mountain. (Sometimes 'big hill' if more precision is needed).
September 22, 2026 at 1:00 PM
And the number of hills/mountains whose names mean hill/mountain. (Sometimes 'big hill' if more precision is needed).
fun fact: Lean can represent real numbers
not floats (although Lean can do them). not doubles. not even arbitrary precision floats, but *actual* reals — which includes the squared root of 2, the exact number Pi (not an approximation!), fractions like 0.111... and so on.
this still blows my mind
not floats (although Lean can do them). not doubles. not even arbitrary precision floats, but *actual* reals — which includes the squared root of 2, the exact number Pi (not an approximation!), fractions like 0.111... and so on.
this still blows my mind
August 12, 2025 at 12:42 AM
fun fact: Lean can represent real numbers
not floats (although Lean can do them). not doubles. not even arbitrary precision floats, but *actual* reals — which includes the squared root of 2, the exact number Pi (not an approximation!), fractions like 0.111... and so on.
this still blows my mind
not floats (although Lean can do them). not doubles. not even arbitrary precision floats, but *actual* reals — which includes the squared root of 2, the exact number Pi (not an approximation!), fractions like 0.111... and so on.
this still blows my mind
❗️The Defense Forces of Ukraine delivered precision strikes on a number of enemy targets in the temporarily occupied territories and on the territory of the Russian Federation: a concentration of personnel at the «Prymorskyi Posad» training ground (Zaporizhzhia region) was hit,
February 5, 2026 at 9:30 AM
❗️The Defense Forces of Ukraine delivered precision strikes on a number of enemy targets in the temporarily occupied territories and on the territory of the Russian Federation: a concentration of personnel at the «Prymorskyi Posad» training ground (Zaporizhzhia region) was hit,
The Norwegian Government has unsurprisingly chosen South Korean as long range precision fire system for the Norwegian Army, a 19Bn NOK program.
The core is 16 Chunmoo launchers and "a larger number of missiles, with three different ranges".
www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/r...
The core is 16 Chunmoo launchers and "a larger number of missiles, with three different ranges".
www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/r...
Regjeringen har valgt leverandør av langtrekkende presisjonsild
Regjeringen har besluttet å gå videre med det sørkoreanske selskapet Hanwha som leverandør av Forsvarets nye system for landbasert langtrekkende presisjonsild.
www.regjeringen.no
January 29, 2026 at 10:31 AM
The Norwegian Government has unsurprisingly chosen South Korean as long range precision fire system for the Norwegian Army, a 19Bn NOK program.
The core is 16 Chunmoo launchers and "a larger number of missiles, with three different ranges".
www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/r...
The core is 16 Chunmoo launchers and "a larger number of missiles, with three different ranges".
www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/r...