HI,

I would upgrade that "a good read" to a critical read if you do anything with floating point. ��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

14 January 2020 03:05 Pierce Ng <pierce@samadhiweb.com> wrote:

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