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Floating-point storage of data takes care of many of the nasty problems that occur when you are using integers and fixed-point numbers. But floating-point storage has its own problems.
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Fortner, B. (1995). Floating-Point Numbers. In: The Data Handbook. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2538-6_5
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