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minus-squareRoselinkfedilinkEnglish5•10 days agoComputer science: 2+2=4 (for integers at least; try this with floating point numbers at your own peril, you absolute fool)
minus-squaresocsalinkfedilinkEnglish1•8 days agoFreshmen engineer: wow floating point numbers are great. Senior engineer: actually the distribution of floating point errors is mindfuck. Professional engineer: the mean error for all pairwaise 64 bit floating point operations is smaller than the Planck constant.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•10 days agocomparing floats for exact equality should be illegal, IMO
Computer science: 2+2=4 (for integers at least; try this with floating point numbers at your own peril, you absolute fool)
0.1 + 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004
Freshmen engineer: wow floating point numbers are great.
Senior engineer: actually the distribution of floating point errors is mindfuck.
Professional engineer: the mean error for all pairwaise 64 bit floating point operations is smaller than the Planck constant.
comparing floats for exact equality should be illegal, IMO