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What every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic (1991) [pdf]

https://www.itu.dk/~sestoft/bachelor/IEEE754_article.pdf
24•jbarrow•4d ago

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lifthrasiir•1h ago
(1991). This article is also available in HTML: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.h...
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