Comment on Exposing Floating Point – Bartosz Ciechanowski (2019)parentComments−bombcar4moDigital precision quickly outstrips accuracy in any number of things - eg digital calipers that read down to the ten thousands of an inch on a device that isn’t accurate to a thousandth.−ua7094moTotally agree but for calculations the rules can be a bit different because error can accumulate and computers add lots of numbers really quickly.
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Digital precision quickly outstrips accuracy in any number of things - eg digital calipers that read down to the ten thousands of an inch on a device that isn’t accurate to a thousandth.
Totally agree but for calculations the rules can be a bit different because error can accumulate and computers add lots of numbers really quickly.