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		aebtebeten on Jan 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reverse engineering a neural network's clever solu... Sometimes when doing arithmetic with sed I use the unary representation, but usually it's better to use lookup tables: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1620#Transferred_to_San_Jo...

GeorgeTirebiter on Jan 16, 2023 [–]

If you want to have some fun, implement code to do arbitrary precision arithmetic the way the CADET did it. It's remarkably simple and reliable.

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