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Yes, I believe it's called 'false precision': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_precision http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_precision
by Perceval 17y ago
Yes, 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.