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jacobparker
on Nov 21, 2012
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What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Fl...
Floating point addition and multiplication are commutative, but are not necessarily associative.
taylodl
on Nov 21, 2012
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You are correct. I should have been more clear. Our expectation for addition to be associative is deeply ingrained and it's shocking to discover that's not the case when performing floating point computations.
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