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		immibis 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Posit floating point numbers: thin triangles and o... So do floats if you don't care about NaN

tomsmeding 8 months ago [–]

They do not; if you sort as unsigned ints then negative floats sort above positive ones, and if you sort as signed ints then the negative range is reversed. IEEE floats are sign-magnitude, not twos-complement.

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