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September 9, 2024

Floating-Point and Rounding Error

Floating-point numbers are how we squeeze the infinite world of real numbers into a finite space on our computers. As programmers, we use them all the time to mimic real-world calculations, often without really thinking about the consequences of approximating infinite numbers with finite ones. This can lead to some pretty funny and unexpected situations.

September 9, 2024

First Blog Post!

This blog post is hopefully the start of me keeping track of what I am doing, learning, and accomplishing during my PhD.