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  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    1 year ago

    You can use an O(n) radix sort on the Z-values because IEEE-754 floats share the integer property that leftmost bits always have higher values than rightward ones.

    • Kevin@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Oh that just made it click in my head why they would do it as sign, exponent, mantissa and not sign, mantissa, exponent. I mean yes I’ve been taught it’s for sorting purposes, but this really helped it fit better. Thanks!