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Comment Re:Decimal Arithmetic (Score 1) 456

by tomjennings on Monday August 14, 2006 @12:40PM (#15903601) Attached to: The Trouble With Rounding Floats

Absodiddlyutely. Floating point isn't arithmetic, it's a *simulation of* arithmetic. Alan Turing [and probably others] pointed this out before 1950! It trades precision for convenience and dynamic range. RTFM!

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