Robert Fisher
Just thinking out loud
On floating point
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A quote from FloatingPointFractions on c2.com:
“every floating point number is an approximation of an infinite number of nearby non-rational real numbers”
Side note: so-called “banker's rounding” rounds x.5 to the nearest even integer.
- 0.4 → 0
- 0.5 → 0
- 0.6 → 1
- 1.4 → 1
- 1.5 → 2
- 1.6 → 2
- 2.4 → 2
- 2.5 → 2
- 2.6 → 3
- 3.4 → 3
- 3.5 → 4
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