Re: [TUHS] [PiDP-11] Fun with Fortran on the PiDP-11 - TUHS

13 Mar 2022

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  On Mar 12, 2022, at 2:02 PM, Rob Pike
&lt;r(a)golang.org&gt; wrote:

 Indeed. Be careful about the code Numerical Recipes if you are doing
 important numerical work.  
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  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