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I thought the most interesting bit in this article was the link to "How Java's Floating-Point Hurts Everyone Everywhere": https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wka

I thought the most interesting bit in this article was the link to "How Java's Floating-Point Hurts Everyone Everywhere": https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/JAVAhurt.pdf https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/JAVAhurt.pdf Written by William Kahan, also known as the Old Man of Floating-Point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29042853 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29042853 - An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (1998)

michaelcampbell 2y ago
Totally not-related to the topic, but I started reading that JAVAhurt PDF and find the typesetting god-awful. Just me? Feels like they imported some TeX package to space out words on a line far, far too far... and inconsistently. Like it was OCR'd from something else and put in extra spaces. Even the monospace sections have weird extra spacing. Anyway, enough ranting for the day, but I found this really hard to focus on to read - almost felt like a science-kook type manifesto, though I know it is not.
- michaelcampbell 2y ago
  (post edit time edit...) I looked at some of his other writings and they all suffer this. I'm not sure what TeX template he's using, but it's bizarre. (IMO, of course.)