The trouble with rounding floating point numbers

Posted by grouch on Aug 12, 2006 10:39 AM EDT
Reg Developer; By Dan Clarke 		Mail this story
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So, Prudence, computers do make mistakes…We all know of floating point numbers, so much so that we reach for them each time we write code that does math. But do we ever stop to think what goes on inside that floating point unit and whether we can really trust it?

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Very Helpful dek 4 1,152 Aug 13, 2006 6:37 PM

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