13 Mar
2022
13 Mar
'22
10:43 a.m.
On Mar 12, 2022, at 2:02 PM, Rob Pike
<r(a)golang.org> wrote:
Indeed. Be careful about the code Numerical Recipes if you are doing
important numerical work.
For simple stuff it's fine, of course, but
floating point is a
minefield that requires expert navigation.
-rob
That's the seductive trap of floating-point numbers, isn't it? They invite us
to think about them as if they were the real numbers, but they are very, very much *not*
the real numbers. And yet, most of the time, for most applications, if you treat them as
if they were, you get plausible results.
Adam