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Faster floating point math with Rust's new API (pythonspeed.com)
rob74 34 minutes ago [-]
I'm not an expert on floating point math, but the "Does adding a small number do nothing?" example caught my eye, because the numbers used are constants, which are arbitrary precision in some languages (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57511935/what-is-the-pur...). For instance, Go answers the question with false (but still prints out "1e+16" when you try to print 1e16 + 1): https://go.dev/play/p/mSAktWpCRJA
GeertB 5 days ago [-]
Signed integer addition is only associative when overflow is defined to wrap around like unsigned arithmetic. This condition is matched here, because only debug builds panic on overflow. However, it's a bit of a gray area that the article completely ignores.
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