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13 August 2016, 20:21
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Glastonbridge Software
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Important Facts about Floating Point Numbers
Following on from a bit of a complain about floating point arithmetic in an Off Topic/Technical thread, i thought it might be useful to have its own thread here.
Links posted: What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/jean-michel...r/goldberg.pdf Robust Adaptive Floating-Point Geometric Predicates http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jrs/pape...predicates.pdf Accurate Sum and Dot Product with Applications http://www.ti3.tuhh.de/paper/rump/OgRuOi04a.pdf |
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13 August 2016, 20:41
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son of 68k
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Are you sure points actually float ? Don't they just sink when put on water ?
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13 August 2016, 21:14
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Glastonbridge Software
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well technically, points would be black holes, so all the water would go down through the point.
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