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- Subject: Re: Floating point inaccuracies
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:08:22 -0200
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Paul Hudson <phudson@pobox.com> wrote:
> > Even more likely to trap the unwary, I'd have thought.
>
> Yes, such weird implementation details will only postpone the point
> when someone _really_ needs to understand floating-point! The earlier
> the better; when they taught us FORTRAN IV they hammered the
> do-not-expect-floats-to-be-equal point home.
YES!!!! Lots of very bright people have been working with floating
points for a very long time. Learn with them before trying to "solve"
those problems.
-- Roberto
