Kahan (architect of IEEE 754) has a nice rant on it: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Mind1ess.pdf https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Mind1ess.pd

Kahan (architect of IEEE 754) has a nice rant on it: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Mind1ess.pdf https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Mind1ess.pdf (and plenty of other rants...: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/ https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/ )