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Stop using floats (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Posits aside, that page had one of the best, clearest explanations of how floating point works that I've ever read. The authors of my college textbooks could have learned a thing or two about clarity from this writer.