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  • zerofk@lemm.ee
    5·
    3 hours ago

    There is a paper titled “What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic” by David Goldberg. It’s a bit theoretical, but IMO it’s a must-read for any programmer doing more than the occasional floating point calculation. It goes beyond just limited precision and rounding errors.

  • call_me_xale@lemmy.zip
    6·
    16 hours ago

    More people need to learn to use Rational types. A pretty large majority of the numbers that people care about in real life can easily be represented by a ratio of integers, and they allow math with perfect precision.

    • boonhet@lemm.ee
      6·
      15 hours ago

      Or just BigDecimal or an equivalent if rational types aren’t easy to use in your language (e.g if you’d have to literally enter the denominator and numerator).