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Floating point and error
Why 0.1 + 0.2 ≠ 0.3 on a computer, and how error propagates.
Computers store numbers in binary with ~16 significant digits; 0.1 is not representable exactly. Round-off accumulates, and subtracting nearly equal numbers destroys digits (cancellation). Picture it: 255 in binary is 11111111, and 0.1 in binary never terminates. Think it: a stable algorithm keeps error growth linear; conditioning is a property of the problem, stability of the method.
Exemplu lucrat · 0.1 + 0.2
Pas cu pas
- 0.3 = \frac{3}{10}
Add: 0.1 + 0.2 = 3/10.
- \frac{3}{10} = 0.3
Simplify.
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Cum să: Floating point and error
- Add: 0.1 + 0.2 = 3/10.
- Simplify.
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