when i make this multiplication 0.94 * 8700 the output is 8177.999999999999 but it should have been 8178
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Why does the following code behave as it does in C? float x = 2147483647; //2^31 printf(\"%f\\n\", x); //Outputs 2147483648
I\'m wondering what kind of errors I can encounter if I set /fp:fast instead of fp:precise? I work under MSV10
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assert(0.1 + 0.2 != 0.3); // shall be true is my favorite check that a language uses native floating point arithmetic.
I\'ve heard that there are many problems with floats/doubles on different CPU\'s. If i want to make a game that uses floats for everything, how can i be sure the float calculations are exactly the sa
There are probably hundreds of questions on here about floating point rou开发者_JAVA百科nding errors, and the solution is supposed to be interval arithmetic which helps keep track of them. As I\'d lik
So I am creating a time tracking application using Ruby On Rails and am storing the time as a number representing hours.
I\'m having some trouble understanding why some figures can\'t be represented with floating point number.