IEEE floats are (nominally) deterministic in part, although that part [0] doesn't happen to include the transcendental functions. You are right, though, that t

IEEE floats are (nominally) deterministic in part, although that part [0] doesn't happen to include the transcendental functions. You are right, though, that there's a lot of software out there that assumes determinism without being anywhere near sufficiently circumspect. [0] http://randomascii.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/floating-point-determinism http://randomascii.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/floating-point-d...