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by dunham 616 days ago
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