String to Float, without introducing errors
Chris Angelico
rosuav at gmail.com
Sat Dec 17 17:58:05 EST 2022
On Sun, 18 Dec 2022 at 09:46, Stefan Ram <ram at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> writes:
> >Yes, fixed point (or decimal) is a better fit for what he's doing. but
> >I suspect that floating point would be a better fit for the problem
> >he's trying to solve.
>
> I'd like to predict that within the next ten posts in this
> thread someone will mention "What Every Computer Scientist
> Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic".
>
> |>>> 0.1 + 0.2 - 0.3
> |5.551115123125783e-17
>
Looks like someone just did.
ChrisA
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