3 stories tagged numerical-computing, newest first.
58 points by ibobev | 12 comments
Blog post arguing that float arithmetic should be handled by reacting to results (NaN/inf) rather than the preventive checks used for integer overflow in C and Rust.
52 points by ibobev | 30 comments
A blog post exploring when adding decimal numbers as IEEE double-precision floats produces rounding errors and when the results come out exact.
1683 points by pie_flavor | 407 comments
Blog post retelling a tweet thread on why building an accurate calculator app is hard, covering precision issues like (10^100)+1-(10^100) returning 0.