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Addition and subtraction can lead to enormous absolute errors. I'm fact, subtraction is one of the biggest culprits for causing instability.
by reikonomusha 13y ago
Addition and subtraction can lead to enormous absolute errors. I'm fact, subtraction is one of the biggest culprits for causing instability.
- beagle3 13y agoMostly if followed by multiplication or division. While it is possible to get any magnitude of error with just addition and subtraction, that's usually not the case when just adding and subtracting numbers that are within 8 orders of magnitude, which is usually the range of money (assuming you're using double precision)