If gender were binary, we could switch the gender of everyone in the world in less than 10 seconds! But it’s not, and I don’t know how many bits are required to represent it.
This feels like floating point would not work well.
(Context for the non-programmer-socks crowd) Some systems store decimal numbers in a way that precludes an exact representation of some vslues. So 1/10 might have be stored as 0.0999999999999976, which makes little difference until the inaccuracy gets multiplied and rippled around enough to generate a letter for being 0.0000000047 cents overdrawn.
I suppose for gender, the rounding error is catgirl. we’re all ever so slightly willing to mew and swat away people trying to rub our bellies, it’s just a matter of when it shows up in an unexpecyed place.
If gender were binary, we could switch the gender of everyone in the world in less than 10 seconds! But it’s not, and I don’t know how many bits are required to represent it.
This feels like floating point would not work well.
(Context for the non-programmer-socks crowd) Some systems store decimal numbers in a way that precludes an exact representation of some vslues. So 1/10 might have be stored as 0.0999999999999976, which makes little difference until the inaccuracy gets multiplied and rippled around enough to generate a letter for being 0.0000000047 cents overdrawn.
I suppose for gender, the rounding error is catgirl. we’re all ever so slightly willing to mew and swat away people trying to rub our bellies, it’s just a matter of when it shows up in an unexpecyed place.