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MauranKilom
on June 11, 2021
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How to average floating point numbers (2015)
Heh, I reasoned about the exponent by hand and got -55 but then wasn't sure whether it was correct so I searched for discussions of 0.3 - 0.2 - 0.1 and took the value they quoted (2^-54). That being an off-by-one error does resolve my question.
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