TGViewer
Programming Programming @programmingreddit · 916 subscribers
Post #11983 111
None of the major mathematical libraries that are used throughout computing are actually rounding correctly.
http://www.hlsl.co.uk/blog/2020/1/29/ieee754-is-not-followed

https://redd.it/1ilzfzt
@programmingreddit
TRYING TO FIND THE OBVIOUS Elementary Functions and NOT Following the IEEE 754 Floating-Point Standard — TRYING TO FIND THE OBVIOUS The IEEE-754 Standard for floating-point numbers was introduced initially in 1985 to solve the problem of diverse floating point implementations prevent code being portable and increase stability across platforms. It has been widely adopted and revised…
Open in Telegram All posts from @programmingreddit
More from @programmingreddit
  1. Oct 13, 2026The Order of Things: Why You Can't Have Both Speed and Ordering in Distributed Systems htt…
  2. Oct 12, 2026Python 3.15 vs Python 3.14 – performance testing https://en.lewoniewski.info/2026/python-3…
  3. Oct 11, 2026Software developers are not okay | Bjarnason https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsEpW03gxKg h…
  4. Oct 11, 2026How we slashed the size of our search cache by 74% https://medium.com/deezer-engineering/h…
  5. Oct 11, 2026ClickHouse outcompresses Parquet: Surprises from our migration https://tomalard.github.io/…
  6. Oct 11, 2026Stop reaching for WebSockets by default: WebSockets vs SSE vs Long Polling https://medium.…
Threads Profile ViewerView any public Threads profile without an account.Open ThreadLook →Writing with AI? Make it sound human.Metric37 rewrites AI drafts so they read naturally. Free AI detector, 1,500 words free.Try Metric37 →