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Floating point addition and multiplication are commutative, but are not necessarily associative.
by jacobparker 14y ago
Floating point addition and multiplication are commutative, but are not necessarily associative.
- taylodl 14y agoYou are correct. I should have been more clear. Our expectation for addition to be associative is deeply ingrained and it's shocking to discover that's not the case when performing floating point computations.