In today's lecture we saw why real-valued (floating-point) numbers are used very rarely, if at all, in systems programming and operating systems kernels.
Here's an article describing the problem,
Stop Using Floating-Point Numbers to Store Money
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Harry R. Lewis has been a Harvard CS professor, and thinks there's a lesson for today from a time when "Computers were experienced as physical things"
Mechanical Intelligence and Counterfeit Humanity
https www.harvardmagazine.com 2024 07 harry-l...
Hello Everyone,
This semester (today) we start with around 550 students enrolled. We'll spend part of the first lecture discussing how the unit will run this year, but first I'll head off some common questions that students are already asking by emai...