Here's an excellent article on floating point numbers, how they're stored and what kind of errors they can cause. http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/0...approximation/ .
Cheers,
cgkanchi
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Here's an excellent article on floating point numbers, how they're stored and what kind of errors they can cause. http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/0...approximation/ .
Cheers,
cgkanchi
Man!! thats great!! It is superb!! I likes the info...how come that big thing remain so un-noticed!! HUH!! afterall computer is a machine which was not invented for ROUNDING FIGURES lol!
Absolutely great read !
Thanks for sharing !
oh my God.....that was one heck of thing to read.
thnx 4 the info
By the way .... I think that to some extent it might also pose a threat to the security??? Don't you think so??? Some changes ...small changes can alter things so much that the target system computing a lot of things all the time might crash with time.... I am not sure but dunno why I get that gut feeling that it also can be used as an exploit.
Amazing read - thanks! It's remarkable and scary at the same time, how a minute detail can wreak success or failure.
I also saw a related article in regards to a book on code quality - looks interesting as well - especially from an audit perspective:
http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/06/30/code_quality/