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It's not an efficiency issue. Adding floating point numbers naively left-to-right can introduce huge errors, even in small data sets. http://en.wikipedia.org/
by jfager 17y ago
It's not an efficiency issue. Adding floating point numbers naively left-to-right can introduce huge errors, even in small data sets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point#Accuracy_problems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point#Accuracy_problem...
- gclaramunt 17y agoBut is not limited to map/reduce... every time you use floating point god kills a kitten