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>I personally don't find it important You remind me of the alleged UK Post Office scandal: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56718036 https://www.bbc.com/news
by perl4ever 5y ago
>I personally don't find it important
You remind me of the alleged UK Post Office scandal:
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56718036 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56718036
- lokedhs 5y agoThat's not what I'm talking about. Floating point computations happen when doing risk calculations, for example computing risk numbers in a Black-Sholes calculation. A difference in the 15'th decimal has no impact on the risk number.
- perl4ever 5y agoI don't have a good counterexample off hand, but I've seen a web page literally display "NaN" where a number should be. The truth is, I have faith in Murphy's law.