Timeline for About floating point precision and why do we still use it
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| Nov 16, 2018 at 17:57 | comment | added | btd | Floating point values don't actually overflow; if the result of a computation is too large in magnitude to be represented then the result is positive or negative Infinity. | |
| Feb 6, 2013 at 0:56 | history | answered | rasmus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |