From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What is 0.01 here not 0.01 here 0.009999999999999?
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2021 20:07:43 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YGdPX/Y2Zg/T6Qtv@protected.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <837dlkg4xq.fsf@gnu.org>
* Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2021-04-02 17:03]:
> Suggested reading:
>
> https://www.itu.dk/~sestoft/bachelor/IEEE754_article.pdf
Thank you, I will read. From:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point_arithmetic#Accuracy_problems
It seem that floating point arithmetic is killer at certain
situations, so I will just make sure not to fiddle with missiles.
Incidents
On 25 February 1991, a loss of significance in a MIM-104 Patriot
missile battery prevented it from intercepting an incoming Scud
missile in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, contributing to the death of 28
soldiers from the U.S. Army's 14th Quartermaster Detachment.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-02 17:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-02 13:42 What is 0.01 here not 0.01 here 0.009999999999999? Jean Louis
2021-04-02 13:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-02 17:03 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-02 17:41 ` Teemu Likonen
2021-04-02 18:44 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-02 20:46 ` John Yates
2021-04-02 21:19 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-02 22:04 ` John Yates
2021-04-02 23:29 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-03 4:39 ` Arthur Miller
2021-04-03 5:36 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-03 3:56 ` Arthur Miller
2021-04-03 5:19 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-03 13:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-03 16:26 ` Packages for ELPA, emacs-libpq Jean Louis
2021-04-02 14:02 ` What is 0.01 here not 0.01 here 0.009999999999999? Eli Zaretskii
2021-04-02 17:07 ` Jean Louis [this message]
2021-04-03 4:49 ` Arthur Miller
2021-04-16 20:41 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-04-17 10:53 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-19 10:51 ` Eric S Fraga
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