1. floats are fuzzy around the edges and not "dense" enough

floats are fuzzy around the edges and not "dense" enough

  • Never do: "The difference between two floats is equal to..."
  • Do: "The difference between two floats is in the range ..."
    • But even 2 needs some serious thinking if the range of float values being compared is large.
here is error and What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic


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