Floating Point Numbers - Computerphile
Published January 22, 2014
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Why can't floating point do money? It's a brilliant solution for speed of calculations in the computer, but how and why does moving the decimal point (well, in this case binary or radix point) help and how does it get currency so wrong? 3D Graphics Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzH6n4zXuckrPkEUK5iMQr…
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