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Literature suggestions about numerical errors on calculators
03-18-2020, 04:26 PM
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RE: Literature suggestions about numerical errors on calculators
Goldberg: "What every computer scientist should know about floating point"
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/103162.103163

I think it is all summed up by Kernigham and Plauger in "Elements of Programming Style": "Working with floating point is like moving sand piles. Every time you move one you lose a little sand and pick up a little dirt".
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