This was a delightful read on problems with floating point. My subconscious was familiar with many of these, but these examples really brought the fear of god into my soul.
Googling “arbitrary precision library” for assorted languages now:
https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/01/13/examples-of-floating-point-problems/
@Migueldeicaza still better than integer arithmetic, where there is no standard and you simply get absolute garbage as soon as anything goes wrong =)
@steve don’t take away my sole tether to hope Steve :-)
@Migueldeicaza booleans are probably fully specified in most languages.
@steve @Migueldeicaza don't ask @moyix about his venture into figuring out which PyPI modules were compiled with fast math and would break numpy just by being imported
@elfprince13 @Migueldeicaza @moyix Petition to rename it "dumb-math"
@elfprince13 @steve @moyix I followed the saga in real time :-)