Show HN: Understanding Floating Point

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I wrote an interactive introduction to IEEE-754 floating point and would love some feedback.My main issue with existing treatments of this topic (and internet tutorials, broadly) is that they ask too little of the reader. I wanted to structure this around a sequence of questions for you to answer, using interactive widgets and optionally an LLM tutor/grader. Basically: you progress in the tutorial by demonstrating your understanding.The feedback I m looking for is mostly around structure. Does it help to have the LLM available? Did you engage more with this than you would have with a standard tutorial? etc.btw using the LLM is optional, and requires a valid email address (just to limit abuse). If you decide to do it on your own, you ll still be asked the same questions, you just won t be able to go back and forth with the LLM or have your answers graded.

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