hatch22 questions

• How to I encode a number so that small changes result in very different encodings?
• Is casting a signed integer to a binary floating point number cheaper than the inverse operation?
• When is a CPU cache line flushed to memory after a write?
• How do I compare numbers of the form a + b*sqrt(c) without intermediate integers getting larger and larger?
• Why does a direct cast fail but the "as" operator succeed when testing a constrained generic type?

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