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Show HN: Floating point arithmetic types in C++ for any size and any base

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67 points seg_fault | 5 comments | 18 Oct 24 17:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.711s | source

Since there is so much interest on HN in floats lately and their software implementations, I wanted to show mine. It has no use and is just for teaching me floats and C++. Give me your thoughts.
1. rurban ◴[21 Oct 24 21:53 UTC] No.41908916[source]▶
It's copyrighted so I should not even look at it, and therefore not comment on it.
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2. recursive ◴[22 Oct 24 03:14 UTC] No.41910877[source]▶
And yet...
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3. rurban ◴[22 Oct 24 04:21 UTC] No.41911167[source]▶
The API looks fine, well
4. syockit ◴[22 Oct 24 04:31 UTC] No.41911220[source]▶
It's copyrighted, but nothing stops you from looking at it. It's akin to looking a t a mural painted at someone's house. You can also comment as long as you don't post snippets of the code (except for when fair use is applicable).
5. dahart ◴[22 Oct 24 05:32 UTC] No.41911473[source]▶
All creative works are copyrighted by default in the U.S. and any countries adhering to the Berne convention, unless copyrights are explicitly waived (which is not always an option). This is true regardless of what copyright notices exist, so by that standard you shouldn’t look at or comment on anything. ;) But, it’s legal to look at something copyrighted, you just can’t copy & distribute it. Just curious, did you mean that it lacks an open source license and you only look at open source, or was this just a joke that went sideways, or something else?