In perl.git, the branch blead has been updated <http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/85443d306460d43aa6f95fc6aa1b5de39d2942d0?hp=ccb2541ccb4742d6b229bcccef1d90c4d49d849e>
- Log ----------------------------------------------------------------- commit 85443d306460d43aa6f95fc6aa1b5de39d2942d0 Author: brian d foy <[email protected]> Date: Thu Mar 10 16:50:45 2011 -0600 Update link to "What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary of changes: pod/perlfaq4.pod | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/pod/perlfaq4.pod b/pod/perlfaq4.pod index 970100a..2e7beb3 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq4.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq4.pod @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ numbers, dates, strings, arrays, hashes, and miscellaneous data issues. For the long explanation, see David Goldberg's "What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic" -(http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html). +(U<http://web.cse.msu.edu/~cse320/Documents/FloatingPoint.pdf>). Internally, your computer represents floating-point numbers in binary. Digital (as in powers of two) computers cannot store all numbers -- Perl5 Master Repository
