Have you ever thought about how your computer adds and subtracts? It takes a lot of hardware to handle floating-point numbers like 12.34. I opened up Intel's 8087 math coprocessor chip from 1980 to see how it works...

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Happy "Liverpool Fan For One Day Only" to everyone observing today

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First time in my life I’ve received four compliments from total strangers on an outfit.

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1/ Governments and organizations often cut staff and overlapping roles in the name of efficiency. But what looks unnecessary on a normal day may be essential when something goes wrong. Our new preprint tests how redundancy protects human teams 🧵👇

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We released Pi 1.0! earendil.com/posts/pi-1-0/

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