Hacker News with Generative AI: Floating-Point Arithmetic

Strtod Is Wild (festina-lente-productions.com)
The strtod function in the C standard library seems innocent enough: take a decimal representation of a number, such as "10.35" and return the nearest floating-point binary number (the double C type) [note 1].

C Programming, Floating-Point Arithmetic, Software Development

62 points by turtledragonfly 74 days ago | 14 comments

Herbie: Optimize Floating-Point Expressions (uwplse.org)

Optimization, Programming, Mathematics, Floating-Point Arithmetic

78 points by todsacerdoti 172 days ago | 4 comments

IEEE FP8 Formats for Machine Learning (Draft) [pdf] (github.com/P3109)

Machine Learning, IEEE, Standards, Computer Science, Floating-Point Arithmetic

13 points by avianes 176 days ago | 3 comments

0.1 plus 0.2 (rtfeldman.com)

Floating-Point Arithmetic, Math, Programming

12 points by rtfeldman 179 days ago | 2 comments