Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

For a given calculation on given hardware, the 100th digit of a floating point decimal can be replicated every time. But that digit is basically just noise, and has no influence on the 1st digit.

In other words: There can be multiple "layers" of linked states, but that doesn't necessarily mean the lower layers "create" the higher layers, or vice versa.

 help



Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: