Re: Floating Point Approximations.

David Cressey wrote:
> Here's another example of floating point errors, that's even simpler than
> the 21200 plus 2.5% example.
> [...]

Kernighan & Plauger in "The Elements of Programming Style" said words to the effect of:

A wise old programmer said, "Floating point arithmetic is like moving piles of sand; each time you do it, you lose a little sand and pick up a little dirt".

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