Myths About Floating-Point Numbers (2021)
15 days ago
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- Floating-point numbers are useful but can be tricky to use correctly.
- Programmers can understand floating-point numbers at different levels: beginner, intermediate, and advanced.
- Floating-point numbers are exact within their limited range and precision.
- Floating-point operations are deterministic, not random.
- NaN and INF are valid special cases in floating-point representation and can be useful.
- Common beliefs about floating-point numbers are simplifications that help avoid errors but don't tell the full story.