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May 2025
Today I would like to present my new article: "The Secrets of Floating-Point Numbers". I can be helpful to any programmer no matter what programming language they use. In this article, I discuss floating-point numbers compliant with the IEEE 754 standard, which are available in most programming languages. I describe their structure, capabilities, and limitations. I also address the common belief that these numbers are inaccurate or nondeterministic. Furthermore, I highlight many non-obvious pitfalls that await developers who use them.
The article was first published few months ago in Polish in issue 5/2024 (115) (November/December 2024) of the Programista magazine. Now I have a right to show it publicly for free, so I share it in two language versions:
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