"Modeling error is usually several orders of magnitude greater than floating point error." I think one could argue that this makes floating point error more da

"Modeling error is usually several orders of magnitude greater than floating point error." I think one could argue that this makes floating point error more dangerous. When something is off by several orders of magnitude, it tends to stand out either in the form of program failure (OOM error, etc) or in simply being able to eyeball the results and realize they can't possibly right. When something is off by just a bit, it is something of a lurking horror. It can still bite you in the ass (especially when the error compounds over time), but it may be initially much harder to detect. Those sorts of issues worry me much more than the grander, more obvious ones.