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Comment by jancsika

> I think that illusion can be a bit dangerous when we create things or use things based on that incorrect assumption.

I'd be curious to hear some of the problems programmers have run into from this conceptual discrepancy. We've got probably billions of running instances of web frameworks build atop double precision IEEE 754 to choose from. Are there any obvious examples you know?

parent jancsika 7 years ago

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