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Precision beyond what can be justified by the uncertainty of the original input is wrong, not just as-good-as.
by diarrhea 3y ago
Precision beyond what can be justified by the uncertainty of the original input is wrong, not just as-good-as.
- bigbillheck 3y agoIn terms of actual numbers in the physical world, sure, but the usual kind of floating point numbers don't have a concept of precision, and you're getting all 23 bits whether you want them or not. Humans know the difference between "1.0" and "1.0000" but they're the same to the computer.
- rcxdude 3y agorounding, especially in decimal, isn't actually any better. If you want to specify precision, specify it explicitly.