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Can we trust floating-point numbers? (2006) [pdf]
> The number of times where you deal with things that are guaranteed to be perfectly represented by powers of ten are relatively few.
For a physicist, a few. For an accountant, all.
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For a physicist, a few. For an accountant, all.