Tag: floating point precision
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Why 0.3 Is Not Exactly 0.3: Understanding Floating-Point Precision in Programming
If you’ve ever written code like this: …and wondered why the “obvious” answer fails? Welcome to the fascinating (and sometimes infuriating) world of floating-point numbers. The Invisible Problem At first glance, 0.1 + 0.2 should be 0.3. Simple, right? But computers don’t store decimal numbers in base 10—they store them in binary, as a sequence…