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Decimal places in IEEE 754

June 25th 2026 (week 26 of 2026)

IEEE 754, the floating-point number standard, has finite precision. The number of decimal places a double-precision IEEE 754 number can represent is 15.


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Creative Commons founders' fireside chat (Creative Commons blog)

June 30, 2026

Dee Harris has published a summary of the recent "fireside chat" featuring Creative Commons founders Hal Abelson, Lawrence (Larry) Lessig, Molly Van Houweling, and Glenn Otis Brown. The chat was to mark the 25th anniversary of Creative Commons and inc…

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Asteroid Threat

June 29, 2026

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Toxicity

June 28, 2026

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