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0 pointsTylerE2y ago0 comments

IEEE 754 conforming floats conform to IEEE-754. If they actually conform. Low end devices with shitty software implementations often get the hard edge cases wrong.

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saagarjha2y ago

Yes and when that happens it is important to know what went wrong rather than just handwaving "oh it's that float stuff again I can't trust it".

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0 pointsTylerE2y ago0 comments

IEEE 754 conforming floats conform to IEEE-754. If they actually conform. Low end devices with shitty software implementations often get the hard edge cases wrong.

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saagarjha2y ago

Yes and when that happens it is important to know what went wrong rather than just handwaving "oh it's that float stuff again I can't trust it".

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