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  1. August 12th, 2006, 02:15 PM #1
    cgkanchi
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    Talking Float my boat...

    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/ .

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  2. August 12th, 2006, 03:45 PM #2
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    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!
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  3. August 12th, 2006, 06:36 PM #3
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    Absolutely great read !

    Thanks for sharing !
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    .... computers come to the rescue .... ah technology at last has some use.
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  4. August 17th, 2006, 10:40 AM #4
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    oh my God.....that was one heck of thing to read.

    thnx 4 the info
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  6. August 17th, 2006, 12:26 PM #5
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    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.
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  7. August 17th, 2006, 03:05 PM #6
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    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/
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