The Floating Point Fiasco

The Floating Point Fiasco
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The eternal war between floating-point precision and mathematical purity! Computer scientists are like "meh, close enough" while mathematicians scream in horror at that extra 0.0000000000000004 lurking at the end. It's binary's dirty little secret—computers store decimals as approximations, not exact values. That microscopic rounding error is enough to make a mathematician's soul leave their body. Meanwhile, programmers just shrug and ship the code anyway. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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