Integers of different sizes and endianness, floating point numbers with a radix of 2 that can result in rounding and cancellation errors and NaNs, and bfloat16 for AI.
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All you need to understand about numbers on your Mac, both integers and floating point. Common errors and problems, from endianness to NaNs.
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