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Re:Posits, a New Kind of Number, Improves the Math of AI by throwawaymaths on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @09:01AM (#33007383)
This is a problem for all number systems. The true issue here is not a precision in the underlying bit representation of IEEE-754, it's that 0.1 and 0.2 aren't actually a valid IEEE-754 numbers, and so they get casted to their best approximations.
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