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math problem for experts
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The floating point numbers limitations are not related to the Python language. They are an intrinsinc limitation of the fact that computations are made with a finite precision. All the other usual programming languages have the same limitations and most of them use the same IEEE754 representation of floating point numbers. This includes C++ as well as Python. The only way to get more precise results is to use a multiprecision library such as gmp, but these computations have the same limitations, only at a different order of magnitude.
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math problem for experts - by miltmobley - Jul-08-2023, 08:24 PM
RE: math problem for experts - by jefsummers - Jul-08-2023, 10:12 PM
RE: math problem for experts - by deanhystad - Jul-08-2023, 11:13 PM
RE: math problem for experts - by miltmobley - Jul-09-2023, 12:50 AM
RE: math problem for experts - by deanhystad - Jul-09-2023, 02:16 AM
RE: math problem for experts - by Gribouillis - Jul-09-2023, 07:14 AM

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