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Float Explorer: A tool to understand floating-point numbers

I made another thing: Float Explorer! This is a simple web app that shows you how a floating-point number is stored in your computer's memory. For example, consider the number 44.0457.1 In your compu

Category 'floating point'

(This post follows Part 1: 32-bit floats and will make very little sense without having read that one first. Honestly, it might make little sense having read that one first, I dunno!) Last time we we

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Floating Point Numbers and Rounding

I was writing about how to parse C++17-style hex floating point literals, and in doing so I ended up writing a bunch about how floats work in general (and specifically how floating point rounding happ

Floating Point Error in the Small

A conversation with Jeffrey Sarnoff on the Herbie mailing list raised a very interesting small example of how floating-point error can occur. This example is extreme, but I thought it would be interes

Floating My Doll

I don't remember when she came nor if she had a name. She never wore clothes. She was a handy size to haul around with me on my adventures...

Floating Point Numbers again

The quality of the Saxon product benefits enormously from the contributions of a dozen or so "power-users": as soon as I upload a new release, they run it through all their regressio

Formatting of floating point numbers

Given the query 1.11111111111111112E-7 some users might be surprised to see the answer displayed as 1.1111111111111111E-7. But those are probably people who don't realize that these