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Re:Demystifying Floating-Point Numbers by aisofteng on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @06:31PM (#14207638)
I am, like the author, consistently surprised at how few "programmers" understand this. Baffles me.
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Re:Demystifying Floating-Point Numbers by biocomputation on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @07:29PM (#14207944)
Most people, including programmers, are not used to building numbers from numbers past basic arithmetic on digits from 0-9.

Floating point numbers use scientific notation which is rarely used by anyone, even programmers. When was the last time you expressed a large-ish number in scientific notation when you were working on paper?

Yeah, me either!

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