Floating Point Numbers - Computerphile
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Why can't floating point do money? It's a brilliant solution for speed of calculations in the computer, but how and why does moving the decimal point (well, in this case binary or radix point) help and how does it get currency so wrong?3D Graphics Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzH6n4zXuckrPkEUK5iMQrQyvj9Z6WCrmThe Trouble with Timezones: http://youtu.be/-5wpm-gesOY More from Tom Scott: http://www.youtube.com/user/enyay and https://twitter.com/tomscotthttp://www.facebook.com/computerphilehttps://twitter.com/computer_phileThis video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.Computerphile is a sister project to Brady Haran's Numberphile. See the full list of Brady's video projects at: http://bit.ly/bradychannels
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