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Why Do I Get Rounding Errors With Floating Point Numbers?


When using Floating Point numbers in hardware or software, there is often confusion caused by floating point technologies which is sometimes seen as incorrect values or rounding errors or problems such as:
  • Loss of precision when using scaling and integer types
  • Loss of accuracy when using any floating point variable
  • Loss of precision when swapping between different floating point lengths
To find out the details about this check out the article Understanding Floating Point Numbers And Rounding Issues
 
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Created 2009-04-23
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