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Encode non-numerical data as NaNs

3 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 1 story, 2 comments · first 2021-09-30 · latest 2022-07-17

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  1. https://github.com/philihp/nanbox You don't even need a Double, you can use a Float NaN to encode strings: > IEEE 754 encodes 32-bit floating points with 1 bit for the sign, 8 bits for the exponent, and 23 bits for the number part…
    comment by ElectricalUnion · 2022-07-17 · in Integer math in JavaScript
  2. …bits, so masking the top portion with the NaN signature makes all of your characters NaNs. [0]: https://github.com/philihp/nanbox
    comment by jitl · 2021-09-30 · in NansAreNumbers – An esoteric data type built of NaNs
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    Nanbox: Encode non-numerical data as NaNs
    story by jitl · 2021-09-30 · 0 comments