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Why does the Windows calculator generate tiny errors when calculating the square root of a perfect square? – The Old New Thing

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/07

In the continued “floating point code is hard for most software developers” series:

[WayBack] Why does the Windows calculator generate tiny errors when calculating the square root of a perfect square? – The Old New Thing

Because it doesn’t know that it’s a perfect square.

–jeroen

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