Getting some frustrating but interesting results from all of this floating point shenanigans though....
So, the same variable assigned to -3.8 reads, when assigned to a float
-3.7999999523162841796875
But, when assigned to a double,
-3.7999999999999998223643160599749535322189331054687
So comparing both the difference is also annoyingly big:
0.00000004768371564267681605997495353221893310546875
10^-8 is... uncomfortably big? It's making me wonder if my whole idea is flawed because of this
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2024-04-17 04:00:29
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