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A comment on What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic (1991). Parent comment

Re:What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-... by Gracana on Monday June 29, 2020 @10:55AM (#23678148)
> Did you mean to say it has no finite representation in the IEEE float format?

Of course that's implied.

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Re:What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-... by DarkWiiPlayer on Thursday July 02, 2020 @09:10AM (#23712734)
It was a rhetoric question; I just wanted to point out that people blame these inaccuracies on "binary representations" when in reality it's just this one binary representation that's broken.
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