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Translate tutorial/floatingpoint.po #43

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yichung279 opened this issue Oct 13, 2018 · 4 comments
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Translate tutorial/floatingpoint.po #43

yichung279 opened this issue Oct 13, 2018 · 4 comments
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@yichung279 yichung279 commented Oct 13, 2018

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@yichung279 yichung279 commented Oct 16, 2018

How should I translate “a power of two”?
According to wikipedia,it seems to be “2的冪” formally.However,I would like to translate as “以2為底的指數”.It is much easier for beginners.Should I translate formally or beginner-friendly?

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@Nienzu Nienzu commented Oct 16, 2018

@yichung279, can you provide the link to the sentence containing "a power of two"?

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@yichung279 yichung279 commented Oct 16, 2018

@Nienzu, Following is the sentence:
On most machines today, floats are approximated using a binary fraction with the numerator using the first 53 bits starting with the most significant bit and with the denominator as a power of two.

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@adrianliaw adrianliaw commented Oct 17, 2018

How about keeping the formal term and parenthesise the beginner-friendlier version?

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