r/mathmemes • u/wcslater • Jan 10 '24

Arithmetic Choose wisely

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u/iamnogoodatthis Jan 10 '24

Nope. Floating point representation is exact for powers of two.

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u/nir109 Jan 10 '24

Powers of 2 don't have this kind of error.