Re:Toward an API for the Real Numbers
by dchapp on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @08:48PM
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> I'm sorry addition isn't commutative...
My understanding is that in IEEE 754 compliant implementations of floating-point arithmetic, commutativity over "+" holds but not associativity. (With the possible exception to commutativity for the NaNs, though I don't remember offhand whether this caveat is necessary).
My understanding is that in IEEE 754 compliant implementations of floating-point arithmetic, commutativity over "+" holds but not associativity. (With the possible exception to commutativity for the NaNs, though I don't remember offhand whether this caveat is necessary).