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The Little Things: Comparing Floating Point Numbers- The Coding Nest
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Floating Point Demystified, Part 1
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| | Author's note: this article used to be called "What Every ComputerProgrammer Should Know About Floating Point, part 1". Some peoplenoted that this was perh...
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Faster Math Functions - Bases and Frames
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| | Download Presentation part 1 Download Presentation part 2 I was trying to interpolate a scaling function on an SPU on PS3 and realized, this device has no math library. How do you write powf() without access to libm? The IEEE754 standard for floating point numbers only covers five fundamental functions - addition, subtraction, multiplication, division...
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Ordering Numbers, How Hard Can It Be? | orlp.net
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| | [AI summary] A deep dive into the complexities and pitfalls of comparing different numeric types (integers and floating-point) across various programming languages and the CPU architecture
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Arbitrary Precision, not Arbitrary Accuracy
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| [AI summary] The article discusses the limitations of arbitrary precision arithmetic in avoiding floating point rounding errors and advocates for expression rearrangement as a more effective solution.