I assume that one some level this is 'correct' since both our fine C++ and Fortran compilers do it. However, on another level, it is clearly 'wrong'. I am pretty sure I was never told 'you know the way 0 acts as an identity for multiplication? Well, one of the many screwy things about floating point maths is that it doesn't work that way, but we hush up the negative zeros'.
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I assume that one some level this is 'correct' since both our fine C++ and Fortran compilers do it. However, on another level, it is clearly 'wrong'. I am pretty sure I was never told 'you know the way 0 acts as an identity for multiplication? Well, one of the many screwy things about floating point maths is that it doesn't work that way, but we hush up the negative zeros'.
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