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by OGWhales 1337 days ago
Check out page 3-5 of this paper called How Futile are Mindless Assessments of Roundoff in Floating-Point Computation? [0]. It explains what is happening here better than I can and is where I got this example from.

[0]: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/Mindless.pdf