Felix LeClair
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Years active2025
Appearances by year
- FOSDEM
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1, 2025 | FOSDEM 2025 | FOSDEM | speaker | What’s the (floating) Point of all these data types? A (not so) brief overview of the history and usage of datatypes within the wide world of computationThis presentation delves into the fascinating and sometimes aggravating world of numerical data types, exploring the evolution, strengths, and weaknesses of…Show lessThis presentation delves into the fascinating and sometimes aggravating world of numerical data types, exploring the evolution, strengths, and weaknesses of decimal, fixed point, floating point, and shared exponent formats over the past 70 years. Moving through various Eras, from the early computing era, where arithmetic operations were often emulated using cumbersome decimal arithmetic, to the… | SlidesVideo |
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