Author Topic: How do you deal with floating point rounding errors ?  (Read 2970 times)

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Offline CharlieJV

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Re: How do you deal with floating point rounding errors ?
« Reply #30 on: April 03, 2022, 12:26:15 pm »
For anybody who wants to do some extra reading on his/her down time:  Google Search for "0.1 0.2 not equal 0.3"

It is pretty interesting stuff that I wish my digital design course (from university many moons ago) had covered.

Offline bplus

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Re: How do you deal with floating point rounding errors ?
« Reply #31 on: April 03, 2022, 01:11:37 pm »
Yeah there's STx paper right there:
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Computers don't usually work in base 10, they work in base 2.

So consider yourself warned. :)