Jesse Alama

Euler's polyhedron formula is the mathematical result that polyhedra satisfy the equation V + E - F = 2.

I attended an amazing workshop on the impacts of AI on mathematical research at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley; my thoughts.

Leaning In!

Leaning In!

A new NPM package tracking the TC39 decimal proposal is now available.

Lean is a language that supports proving while programming.

Many programming languages have support for decimals in various forms.

The Python programming langauge supports decimal numbers in its standard library.

I've made an NPM package that allows you to work with IEEE 754 Decimal128 values in your JavaScript programs.

Would it be useful to add support for decimal numbers to JavaScript?

Standard IEEE-754 binary floating point numbers can let us down, even on simple calcualtions.

Racketfest is a festival for Racket enthusiasts based in or near Europe.

Mike Cowlishaw, editor of the 2008 edition of the IEEE 754 floating-point arithmetic standard, has a delightful FAQ page on decimal arithmetic.

Just discover that 0.1 + 0.2 isn't 0.3 in JavaScript?

QuickJS is a JavaScript engine that supports arbitrary-precision decimals.