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Is there such a thing as too much precision?
- Perceval 17y agoYes, I believe it's called 'false precision': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_precision http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_precision
- ars 17y agoYou didn't read the article (which incidentally isn't worth reading). Basically the final point after lots of text is that you want all the precision because sometimes you want to use a number that can be represented exactly in binary float. Doesn't really address the point that it still makes no difference to the final value.
- access_denied 17y agoSuggestion to the author: learn about fuzzy logic and than start to think.
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- johnl 17y agoI think there is a trade off between precision and maintainability. If you can code it and never touch it, I would go for precision. But if you are going to revisit the code often enough I would go for maintainability.