May 26, 2006
9:40 p.m.
On 5/26/06, Michael Tobis <mtobis@gmail.com> wrote:
My decision was to simply tell students that fractional numbers on computers are tricky business, and that if they plan to go much further they would have to learn about them, but that I was going to stick to integers.
I would not make this decision. Floating points aren't so problematic that we need to avoid them for several weeks. Several minutes maybe. Kirby