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I know that beginner Ruby programmers are constantly surprised by floating point arithmetic results due to not understanding how they work. I see it all the time.



> What actual engineers NEED to know about floating point numbers could be put on a single A4 page.


I don’t think you could explain the issues sufficiently on one page. I think you'd be left with more questions and confusion than answers.




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