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First exposure to floating-point arithmetic (peertube.mesnumeriques.fr)
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[–] zerofk@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There is a paper titled “What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic” by David Goldberg. It’s a bit theoretical, but IMO it’s a must-read for any programmer doing more than the occasional floating point calculation. It goes beyond just limited precision and rounding errors.