An introduction to the floating point numbers (iee-754), and some of the oddities surrounding it.

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Some great resources:
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/category/floating-point/

Some more great stuff:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating-point_arithmetic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subnormal_number
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_in_the_last_place
https://www.h-schmidt.net/FloatConverter/IEEE754.html
https://cowboyprogramming.com/2007/01/05/visualizing-floats/

Wait, so comparisons in floating point only just KINDA work? What DOES work?