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Surprised no one posted this yet: What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic
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Re^2: Perl 5 numeric type and simplifications
by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on May 06, 2021 at 07:14 UTC
Re^2: Perl 5 numeric type and simplifications
by no longer just digit (Beadle) on May 07, 2021 at 00:19 UTC
    This site is quite useful, it shows exactly what bits etc. each floating point number corresponds to. There is also an article.