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saurik on July 22, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: 0x7FDE623822FC16E6: A magic constant for double fl...

FWIW, I would probably call this "applied mathematics"; "software engineering" is a discipline that studies how to create software.

jhgb on July 23, 2021 [–]

> FWIW, I would probably call this "applied mathematics"

You mean the thing we call "computer science" (or "mathematical informatics" in some non-English-speaking countries)?

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