Voted up, not because I thought the SO page was interesting or very useful, but it did have a link to this page, http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldber

Voted up, not because I thought the SO page was interesting or very useful, but it did have a link to this page, http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html , What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic, that is well worth reading.