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[–] [email protected] 64 points 4 days ago (11 children)

2+2 = 5

…for sufficiently large values of 2

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (8 children)

Engineer. 2+2=5+/-1

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Computer science: 2+2=4 (for integers at least; try this with floating point numbers at your own peril, you absolute fool)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Freshmen engineer: wow floating point numbers are great.

Senior engineer: actually the distribution of floating point errors is mindfuck.

Professional engineer: the mean error for all pairwaise 64 bit floating point operations is smaller than the Planck constant.

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