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====== Math 753: Floating-point numbers and arithmetic ====== Wikipedia has good documentation on binary representation of floating-point numbers * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-precision_floating-point_format | single precision, 32 bits]] * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-precision_floating-point_format | double precision, 64 bits]] * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point#Floating-point_arithmetic_operations | floating-point arithmetic]] Additionally, this Julia notebook has a nice viewable, interactive demo of floating point numbers from a Julian perspective. * [[http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/url/www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/olver/teaching/MATH3976/notes/04.ipynb | Floating point numbers]], Sheehan Olver, U Sydney, Julia notebooks for Numerical Computing.
