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Not sure why the article does not reference the following paper which is a must read for anyone working with floating point: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-0
by kolbusa 2y ago
Not sure why the article does not reference the following paper which is a must read for anyone working with floating point: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.h... (original: https://www.itu.dk/~sestoft/bachelor/IEEE754_article.pdf https://www.itu.dk/~sestoft/bachelor/IEEE754_article.pdf).
- dunham 2y agoI also recently saw this paper on the difficulty of solving the quadratic equation with floating point numbers: https://cnrs.hal.science/hal-04116310/document https://cnrs.hal.science/hal-04116310/document And also Gerald Sussman saying: > The only thing that scares me in programming is floating point. https://youtu.be/Tdwr9tweTDE?t=1145 https://youtu.be/Tdwr9tweTDE?t=1145