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by TylerE 833 days ago
IEEE 754 conforming floats conform to IEEE-754. If they actually conform. Low end devices with shitty software implementations often get the hard edge cases wrong.
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saagarjha 833 days ago
Yes and when that happens it is important to know what went wrong rather than just handwaving "oh it's that float stuff again I can't trust it".
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