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Am I the only one who thought "What the hell is 'Functional Programming Arithmetic' " after reading this headline? :)

I once had a more detailled look at floating-point numbers, and yes, it's quite a big topic. I like the site, because it's kept quite short, and it describes a few important aspects in regard to the usage of floating-point numbers in your programs (e.g. Comparison).

Maybe you want to mention that there's also an IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic: http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/754/



Coincidentally, I was in the process of doing the same thing. Then I came across http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/184403224 which said what I wanted to say, exactly.


Author of the site here.

The headline needed to be shortened to fit the 80 character limit :)

I've linked to the Wikipedia page of the IEEE standard, but adding the original source is probably a good idea.


I was saved by noting the domain after the headline.




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