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GNU GCC does not round floating-point divisions to the nearest value
I know that floating-point arithmetic is a bit crazy on modern computers. For example, floating-point numbers are not associative: 0.1+(0.2+0.3) == 0.599999999999999978 (0.1+0.2)+0.3 == 0.600000000000000089 But, at least, this is fairly consistent in my experience. You should simply not assume fancy properties like…
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Math & AlgorithmsSoftware Engineering2020
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Jun 27, 2020 | GNU GCC does not round floating-point divisions to the nearest value by guiambros | 158 | 79 |
