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by kolbusa 615 days ago
Not sure why the article does not reference the following paper which is a must read for anyone working with floating point: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.h... (original: https://www.itu.dk/~sestoft/bachelor/IEEE754_article.pdf).
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I also recently saw this paper on the difficulty of solving the quadratic equation with floating point numbers:

https://cnrs.hal.science/hal-04116310/document

And also Gerald Sussman saying:

> The only thing that scares me in programming is floating point.

https://youtu.be/Tdwr9tweTDE?t=1145