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2023

Guess the Largest Number Paradox

5 minute read

Many statistical paradoxes boil down to an imprecise problem statement, but this is one paradox that is truly astonishing, where we seem to get information f...

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2020

Floating Point Error Example

7 minute read

Last post, we talked about how to understand floating point error, but the only example we consider was the trivial case of a + b + c. In this post, we will...

Understanding Floating Point Error

10 minute read

Floating point is the most commonly used number format for calculations. In this post, I go over the basics of understanding floating point rounding and erro...

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