It's not often that I get to pull Knuth's The Art of Computer
Programming down off the shelf and immediately solve a problem
with it. Today, I did.
A big "Thank you!" goes to my parents for giving it to me long
ago.
The problem is that for the way almost all computers work,
floating-point numbers do not follow the associative property. This results in wrong results and
a good bit of hilarity.
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Dec
01
2006