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2025-10-10 08:20:59

The Slow Space Editor : Broadening Access to Restorative XR
Nate Laffan, Ashley Hom, Andrea Nadine Castillo, Elizabeth Gitelman, Rebecca Zhao, Nikita Shenoy, Kaia Rae Schweig, Katherine Isbister
arxiv.org/abs/2510.07610

@shriramk@mastodon.social
2025-11-06 19:32:57

Oh good! Someone from the @… community can weigh in on the benefits.
Oh wait…
Anyway, sooner or later the time for computable reals will come. I'm still HODLing stock in continued fractions (and teaching them every year to my first-year students).

Isaac King Advocates Replacing Floating-Point with Exact Arithmetic in High-Level Languages

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Software engineer Isaac King initiated a discussion on X on November 5, arguing that high-level languages like Python and JavaScript should default to arbitrary-precision arithmetic, such as rationals, to avoid floating-point precision errors that burden developers. Supporters agree on the need for greater accuracy in non-integer computations, while critics, including program…