This is really great material, Jason. Are you using MathJax? For me, the LaTeX-like code doesn’t seem to get processed.
— John On Feb 22, 2014, at 5:52 PM, Jason Merrill <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm working on a series of blog posts that highlight some basic aspects of > floating point arithmetic with examples in Julia. The first one, on bisecting > floating point numbers, is available at > > http://squishythinking.com/2014/02/22/bisecting-floats/ > > The intended audience is basically a version of me several years ago, early > in physics grad. school. I wrote a fair amount of basic numerical code then, > both for problem sets and for research, but no one ever sat me down and > explained the nuts and bolts of how computers represent numbers. I thought > that floating point numbers were basically rounded off real numbers that > didn't quite work right all the time, but were usually fine. > > In the intervening years, I've had the chance to work on a few algorithms > that leverage the detailed structure of floats, and I'd like to share some of > the lessons I picked up along the way, in case there's anyone else reading > who is now where I was then. > > Some of the material is drawn from a talk I gave at the Bay Area Julia Users > meetup in January, on the motivations behind PowerSeries.jl
