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Floating point arithmetic

See Also

• Float Exposed is an online tool to explore (or teach) floating point representation. The author, Bartosz Ciechanowski, also wrote an article Exposing Floating Point on his blog.

• The Perils of Real Numbers (Part I) (broken link) by Steve Lionel

• What every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic by D. Goldberg in ACM Computing Surveys 23, 5-48 (1991). (pdf)

• The pitfalls of verifying floating-point computations by David Monniaux.

• An strange point a thread on comp.lang.fortran about testing for equality of reals.