Version 5 of arithmetic

Updated 2012-05-14 02:08:28 by RLE

Computer arithmetic is not the same as grade-school arithmetic; "Fixed-point arithmetic", for example, mentions that, in the former, 0.1 + 0.1 is unlikely to be 0.2.

"What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic " explores this in detail.

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See also Decimal arithmetic, [(back?)-references to other pertinent pages]