Hey I just watched lecture 5 will I ever need to do binary floating point by hand or do I just need to understand how it works.

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anonymous · Answer

It is highly unlikely that you'll ever want or need to do it manually.

anonymous · Answer

Ok good because I understand how they figure  it out but it looks really annoying to do yourself.

anonymous · Answer

Yep. That's why we invented computers (and compilers) ;p

anonymous · Answer

thank god for technology haha

anonymous · Answer

It is important to understand the nuances as stated incase you ever run into an issues.  Also you would want to know if you wrote your own programming language ;)

anonymous · Answer

O ok thank you I understand how it works and how to figure out the answer if necessary. Its just not something I want to repeatedly do.