Re: Embarrassing Arithmetic behaviour

Am 20.02.2014 00:06, schrieb Richard A. O'Keefe:

> Nobody graduates from this department without having done several
> hours of exercises designed to convince them that floating point
> arithmetic is not mathematical real number arithmetic.

Ah yes, there is just so *much* stuff that really, really everyone
should know, but surprisingly few of us do.
I do remember there were all kinds of hoops I had to jump through to get
my degree.
Yet here I am, and floating point arithmetic still gives me the creeps.
I guess this means that I did not graduate from "this" (your?) department.

> How does 
> anyone get through a programming course without meeting this stuff?

With ease.

Kind Regards,
--lu