• MsFlammkuchen@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      Floating point arithmetic

      Basically, every floating point number represents a range of numbers. Which can lead to small errors like this. It has also to do with trying to represent a decimal number in binary, which works fine for integers but not for rational numbers.