Edited the post to add a "floating point isn’t bad or random" section because I really did not want people to take away "floating point is bad". Floating point is amazing! It's just solving an inherently very hard problem.
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Julia Evans (b0rk@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 07:52:51 JST Julia Evans examples of floating point problems https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/01/13/examples-of-floating-point-problems/
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