Taylan (Male Feminist Arc) on Nostr: I may have just invented a way to represent 2^52 - 2 different fixnum values via NaN ...
I may have just invented a way to represent 2^52 - 2 different fixnum values via NaN packing, with relatively efficient packing/unpacking. (For negative numbers, a single bitwise OR; for positive numbers, a bitwise NOT and then AND.)
And there's another 2^52 - 2 bit patterns that are still unused. That's more than enough for 48-bit pointers and 21-bit Unicode code points.
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