Robin GreenStill one of my favorite memes.
Brian Okken@fatlimey @randomgeek At every work place I eventually bring up “What every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic”
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/103162.103163
What every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic | ACM Computing Surveys
Floating-point arithmetic is considered as esoteric subject by many people. This is rather surprising, because floating-point is ubiquitous in computer systems: Almost every language has a floating-point datatype; computers from PCs to supercomputers ...
nightoo@brianokken @fatlimey @randomgeek this has been an open tab in my browser for 2 years now.
I swear I will read it some day!
I swear I will read it some day!
@nightoo @fatlimey @randomgeek Well, it’s two columns, has some math, and is 44 pages, so a better title might be “What Most Computer Scientists Never Learned or Have Forgotten About
Floating-Point Arithmetic”
Floating-Point Arithmetic”