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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:

Why does the Windows calculator generate tiny errors when calculating the square root of a perfect square?

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

–jeroen

This entry was posted on 2016/12/07 at 12:00 and is filed under Algorithms, Development, Floating point handling, Software Development. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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