“The purpose of a calculator app is to give you correct answers. Floating point numbers are imprecise – they cannot represent 0.3 or 10^100.
This means a calculator built on floating point numbers is like a house built on sand.”
“The purpose of a calculator app is to give you correct answers. Floating point numbers are imprecise – they cannot represent 0.3 or 10^100.
This means a calculator built on floating point numbers is like a house built on sand.”