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nickpeterson
on Feb 9, 2023
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There Are Only Four Billion Floats–So Test Them Al...
Someone needs to make a bumper sticker for developers that says “fast and wrong”. I’d imagine non-programmers would buy more of them for other reasons…
Dylan16807
on Feb 10, 2023
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It's only on edge cases that floating point
isn't
mathematically wrong. And sometimes you don't mind an extra couple ULPs of drift.
fsckboy
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fast and wrong? that's not a great bumper sticker to have when you're getting pulled over for speeding.
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