When I was very young and first learned about Pi they told me 3.14 was a good approximation, but it was an irrational number that went on forever, and people with computers were able to calculate many digits. I had a computer (Commodore Vic 20) and wanted to see how many digits of Pi I could calculate. This is when I discovered floating point number precision limitations, which foiled my first…
As a software developer, if you are focused on an application development project, as a professional you want to focus only on your project, your code, the UI, and your application’s runtime requirements. If your IDE is hard to handle it can cost a lot of time on…
