Jan. 14, 2020
1:03 p.m.
HI, I would upgrade that "a good read" to a critical read if you do anything with floating point. Â Floating point numbers are not real numbers but rather a small subset, and, have all kinds of funny properties. But we use them just like real numbers and that's what catches us out. cheers bruce
On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 02:13:00PM -0600, Donald Howard wrote:
"What are other suggestions, workarounds or approaches community has?"
This is a good read on the subject:
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html
Title is "What every computer scientist should know about floating point arithmetic".
Pierce