Post #4077915
2025-06-18 19:34 UTC
@glyph@mastodon.social actually this is a really good illustration of how making rough estimates with incomplete information becomes less reliable as scale goes up, and where the popular belief has it that you have more wiggle room to be wrong you actually have less
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@glyph@mastodon.social 2025-06-18 20:16
@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place one point that I didn't have enough time to thoroughly make here is that it really, really matters what operation you're doing. if you're adding really big numbers together, especially if they're real numbers, fine. multiplying or dividing? use caution. exponentiation, geometric progressions, compounding accumulation along a time axis? danger danger danger