Yea, I caught that as well. It's really depressing how many seemingly smart competent programmers there are out there whom are completely oblivious to IEEE 754. Don't get me wrong, you're certainly free to criticize how computers do floating point, but smart people have thought long and hard about this and there are reasons for their decision, so at least try to understand those reasons first.
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Yea, I caught that as well. It's really depressing how many seemingly smart competent programmers there are out there whom are completely oblivious to IEEE 754. Don't get me wrong, you're certainly free to criticize how computers do floating point, but smart people have thought long and hard about this and there are reasons for their decision, so at least try to understand those reasons first.