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Someone please explain this, my brain is too dainty and full of frolicking poetry to understand the joke.
Someone please explain this, my brain is too dainty and full of frolicking poetry to understand the joke.
Has to do with floating point addition. https://adacomputerscience.org/concepts/number_floating_point_arithmetic
Has to do with floating point addition. https://adacomputerscience.org/concepts/number_floating_point_arithmetic
Way I understand it, computers can internally represent floating point numbers only as binary approximations with a finite number of binary digits. So since mantissa and exponent are stored only with an arbitrary precision, rounding errors happen.
Hope that's basically correct.
Way I understand it, computers can internally represent floating point numbers only as binary approximations with a finite number of binary digits.
So since mantissa and exponent are stored only with an arbitrary precision, rounding errors happen.
Hope that's basically correct.
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