Also posted today, What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33299829 https://news.ycombi

Also posted today, What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33299829 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33299829 Links to an excruciatingly thorough treatment of the subject by David Goldberg: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.h...