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by voxic11
1814 days ago
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Standard floats cannot represent very common numbers such as 0.1 exactly so they are generally disfavored for financial calculations where an approximated result is often unacceptable. > For example, the non-representability of 0.1 and 0.01 (in binary) means that the result of attempting to square 0.1 is neither 0.01 nor the representable number closest to it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point_arithmetic#Accu... |
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