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Why Computers Screw Up Floating - Detailed Analysis & Overview

Help Support the Channel by Donating Crypto ₿ Monero ... a description of the IEEE single-precision You'd think it's a simple math problem like 0.1 + 0.2 would be easy for In 2010, I digitized several VHS tapes from the "Bay Area 0.1 + 0.2 doesn't equal 0.3. Not in Python. Not in JavaScript. Not in any language. Here's why — and the real disasters it's caused.

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