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Comment Re:Both (Score 1) 181

by snorkack on Sunday May 02, 2010 @12:51PM (#32064708) Attached to: Hot Aisle Or Cold Aisle For Containment?

The truth is that anyone who says one is always better should be viewed with skepticism. They are either trying to sell you something, or one of those petty people who feel threatened when others decide on a different course. You should also consider the human cost. It is always greater than those selling a solution will let on. I would bet though that adding thermal mass to your room would beat out the containment system though.

What Every Programmer Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic 359

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday May 02, 2010 @11:34AM from the gaining-understanding-bit-by-bit dept.

-brazil- writes "Every programmer forum gets a steady stream of novice questions about numbers not 'adding up.' Apart from repetitive explanations, SOP is to link to a paper by David Goldberg which, while very thorough, is not very accessible for novices. To alleviate this, I wrote The Floating-Point Guide, as a floating-point equivalent to Joel Spolsky's excellent introduction to Unicode. In doing so, I learned quite a few things about the intricacies of the IEEE 754 standard, and just how difficult it is to compare floating-point numbers using an epsilon. If you find any errors or omissions, you can suggest corrections."

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