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Problem - Math.Calc (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter WenzelJD
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My knee jerk reaction is to say that floating point math has been known in the past to result in accuracy issues. I recall discussion on this in class, but that was in 2015. I rarely use floating point math in MQ and try to stick with whole numbers whenever possible or use floating points and expect it to have a minor degree of inaccuracy.
This article appears to have been last modified March 4th of this year. https://www.baeldung.com/cs/floating-point-numbers-inaccuracy
Check section 4.1 for a specific example related to your question. Otherwise you're of course welcome to read the entire thing. Section 3.4 should explain some of it a bit related to your question.
If that article isn't to your liking simply google "Floating-point arithmetic may give inaccurate results" and bath in the 25.5 million results. Though I doubt you'll need to leave the first page to get confirmation.
This article appears to have been last modified March 4th of this year. https://www.baeldung.com/cs/floating-point-numbers-inaccuracy
Check section 4.1 for a specific example related to your question. Otherwise you're of course welcome to read the entire thing. Section 3.4 should explain some of it a bit related to your question.
If that article isn't to your liking simply google "Floating-point arithmetic may give inaccurate results" and bath in the 25.5 million results. Though I doubt you'll need to leave the first page to get confirmation.
Reminds me of when I was a kid in computer lab on an Apple IIe. If you asked the computer to divide by zero you would of course get an error. Right after 2 + 2 would = 5 or anything but 4. I used that trick a lot to prove computers made mistakes back then.