Floating point: Everything old is new again

5 · John Cook · Nov. 1, 2024, 8:38 p.m.
In the early days of computing hardware (and actually before) mathematicians put a lot of effort into understanding and mitigating the limitations of floating point arithmetic. They would analyze mundane tasks such as adding a list of numbers and think carefully about the best way to carry out such tasks as accurately as possible. Now […] The post Floating point: Everything old is new again first appeared on John D. Cook....