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| • | Comparing
Floating-Point Numbers: check for an |
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| error
within some range |
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| • | Underflow
and Overflow: Numbers can be too |
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or too small to be represented. |
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| • | Cancellation
Error: problems can occur when |
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| arithmetic
operations occur on values of wildly |
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| different
magnitudes: (1 + 0.00001234 – 1) = |
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| 0.00001234.
For four digits of precision, this |
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| doesn’t
work, why? |
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