Currently a freshman in high school learning python in my free time through the MIT open courseware lectures, and I’ve gotten to the fifth lecture but am getting stuck at when the professor starts talking about base 2 and floating point errors. Could anyone explain these concepts simply, and when I would convert to base 2, and does it ever make any more sense? I know that computers operate in binary and understand the concept of base 2, but I don’t feel like it is explained enough why and when to convert to base two to solve a problem within the code. Thanks!
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r/learnpython Currently a freshman in high school learning python in my free time through the MIT open courseware lectures, and I’ve gotten to the fifth lecture but am getting stuck at when the professor starts talking about base 2 and floating point errors. Could anyone explain these concepts simply, and when I would convert to base 2, and does it ever make any more sense? I know that computers operate in binary and understand the concept of base 2, but I don’t feel like it is explained enough why and when to convert to base two to solve a problem within the code. Thanks! submitted by /u/Arxcine [link] [comments]
Currently a freshman in high school learning python in my free time through the MIT open courseware lectures, and I’ve gotten to the fifth lecture but am getting stuck at when the professor starts talking about base 2 and floating point errors. Could anyone explain these concepts simply, and when I would convert to base 2, and does it ever make any more sense? I know that computers operate in binary and understand the concept of base 2, but I don’t feel like it is explained enough why and when to convert to base two to solve a problem within the code. Thanks!
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