A New Number Format for Computers Could Nuke Approximation Errors for Good
Farewell floats? Even to the more mathematically challenged among us, it's a reasonably easy task to parse a number with a decimal point. I can give you, say, 33.333 and it doesn't take any special mental contortions for you to make sense of it (not saying that you, in particular, are mathematically …
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