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>>15508248
came here to post this

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>>15289308
>"if it coverged to that than it's that"
precision at iteration will never be equivalent to [math]\textbf{exactness}[/math]

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>>15274317
precision at iteration will never be equivalent to [math]\textbf{exactness}[/math]

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>>15067142
>They are *developers*
no, not even that in todays landscape even all the development has been performed and pasted and sorted in stack overflows, They are *assemblers*

but too be fair the 'real number system' isnt a good fit for programming. Its comical to think how much financial instutions have unwittingly profited from floating point rounding errors

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