#finiteprecision — Public Fediverse posts
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How about we make this #FloatingPointFriday? Here's a gem I posted in another thread and that I regularly use to scare my students and to demonstrate to them the dangers of #floatingPoint. Every #IEEE 754 compliant #FPU will give the same answer. It allows me to talk about the fact that radix representations of a number may be finite in one base (10) and infinite in another (2). Then I throw in the fact that floating point numbers have #finitePrecision and that #machineEpsilon is a thing.