Ha! Yes, for floating point. I meant my post to more communicate that moving it behind a library/method would allow you to make that decision elsewhere easily. I did not even come close to making that point. (I got distracted reading some interesting hacks that approximate this in insane speed.)
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I already knew about the lack of associativity of IEEE floats, but TIL that `pow(x,n)` is more precise than chained multiplications.
Good to know.
Technically it is not a matter of precision but of accuracy.
Interesting, thanks for the correction.
I'm neither a native English speaker nor an engineer, and I didn't know about the distinction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision
Also a crap ton faster, right?
Yes, if by faster you mean slower.
Ha! Yes, for floating point. I meant my post to more communicate that moving it behind a library/method would allow you to make that decision elsewhere easily. I did not even come close to making that point. (I got distracted reading some interesting hacks that approximate this in insane speed.)