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Floats Don't Agree with Themselves

22 points by cremer - 5 comments
stuaxo [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Not sure if this was written with AI assistance of not, but I've become allergic to linguistic triples as LLMs use them so much, reading "Same code. Same input. Different answer" makes me not want to read the rest.
jan_Inkepa [3 hidden]5 mins ago
jmalicki [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I love seeing a Shewchuk citation other than my ML background of learning conjugate gradient! He is truly a great educator!
cremer [3 hidden]5 mins ago
his predicates paper opens with "Computational geometers despise floating-point arithmetic" same trick as the CG title: write the sentence a frustrated reader would write, then aren it.. if you like those the Triangle paper is the third one in the same key
adampunk [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Makes you wish everyone agreed on extended precision!