Did you know that, in 64-bit double floating-point format, the number pi is 4009 21FB 6000 0000? Now you can discover that, and reverse from hex to regular decimal, using Mints.
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New version fixes a bug, and adds a new window to explore floating-point number formats, as demonstrated here. And a surprise from Apple.
Close to 0.0, there are huge numbers of different floating-point Doubles, but their value gets greater, they are far fewer.
Numbers has a lightweight interface and is easy to use. But does it handle numbers as accurately as Excel, or maths environments like Matlab?
The futile quest for a pasteboard format which transfers numbers as numbers rather than text which has to be converted back in integers, floating point numbers, and so on.
I was wrong: the first proper update to Big Sur is version 11.1, and next year we should be grappling with macOS 12.
Looks at plain text, CSV, XML, JSON, RTF, RTFD, .docx, .xlsx, and PDF. Which should you trust with your important documents in archives?
When should you use the Move To menu command in any of Apple’s iWork apps? What advantages does it bring over the Finder?
Currently, many major apps keep all the active editing view in Light Mode, irrespective of whether the rest of macOS is in Dark Mode. Is that the best option?
Until these bugs are fixed, versions in iCloud simply can’t be trusted. And mixing them with Handoff becomes even more confusing.