• MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    To get to 0.01 error, you’d need to add up trillions of trillions of floating point errors. It will not happen solely because of floating point unless you’re doing such crazy math that you shouldn’t be using primitives in the first place.

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      10 months ago

      That’s why I said unstable operations. Addition is considered a stable operation (for values with the same sign)