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skohan
on Dec 2, 2019
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This is part of the reason Swift Numerics is helping to make it much nicer to do numerical computing in Swift.
https://swift.org/blog/numerics/
mvelie
on Dec 2, 2019
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Swift also has decimal (so does objective-c) which handles this properly. See
https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-users/Week-of-Mon-20...
to see how swift's implementation of decimal differs from obj-c.
enriquto
on Dec 2, 2019
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what is the number representation in swift? Looking at your link it seems to be plain ieee floats. In that case, would't it have the same behavior?
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