This repository provides examples of common floating-point arithmetic behaviors and issues. These Python examples illustrate how the limitations of floating-point representation can impact accuracy ...

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Learn some best practices for avoiding or minimizing floating point errors in geometric algorithms, such as polygon triangulation, intersection detection, or distance computation.

Learn how to avoid or minimize floating point errors in computational geometry algorithms with these techniques: exact arithmetic, robust predicates, snapping and rounding, perturbation and ...

Although floating point arithmetic standards – like the commonly used IEEE 754 – seek to minimize this error, it’s inevitable that across the range of a floating point variable loss of ...