Re: What is 0.01 here not 0.01 here 0.009999999999999?

[Arthur Miller]

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> * Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2021-04-02 17:03]:
>> Suggested reading:
>> 
>>   https://www.itu.dk/~sestoft/bachelor/IEEE754_article.pdf
>
> Thank you, I will read. From:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point_arithmetic#Accuracy_problems
>
> It seem that floating point arithmetic is killer at certain
> situations, so I will just make sure not to fiddle with missiles.

So could be integers as well, these were (fortunately) not killers:

https://hownot2code.com/2016/09/02/a-space-error-370-million-for-an-integer-overflow/

https://medium.com/@jollyfish/integer-overflow-underflow-and-floating-point-imprecision-6ba869a99033