getting closer to finalizing the table of contents for this zine on how integers and floating point numbers work

the way computers handle numbers is so weird and interesting, it's been fun to spend the last several months reflecting on the ways in which it's weird and trying to break it down

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@b0rk I find it useful from time-to-time to remind myself that the machine is just a machine; it reliably translates input patterns to output patterns following a configurable set of rules, and that's all it does.

Any meaning whatsoever in those patterns is imbued by human observation.

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