Re:Do Developers Understand IEEE Floating Point? [pdf]
by Veedrac on Friday December 28, 2018 @06:54PM
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> I immedieatly thought it was because float64 couldn't cover that number so I told him to use longdouble dtype (it's 80 bits in Intel I think) and the problem solved.
This is a very dangerous habit. If 64 bits isn't enough you are generally using the wrong representation.
This is a very dangerous habit. If 64 bits isn't enough you are generally using the wrong representation.