Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes

who@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Finally, you say?

To emphasize that bugs in implementations of floating point arithmetic are far from rare, we mention that the Calculator application in Microsoft Windows 3.1 evaluates f[(2.01 - 2.00) = 0.0.

…ufpr.br/…/Higham_2002_Accuracy and Stability of …

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