https://github.com/lorenzleutgeb/absorption

Solution to a challenge on the absorption effect in floats
https://github.com/lorenzleutgeb/absorption

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Solution to a challenge on the absorption effect in floats

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/lorenzleutgeb/absorption
• Owner: lorenzleutgeb
• Created: 2013-02-09T17:23:01.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-04-29T08:58:05.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-13T02:08:49.844Z (2 months ago)
• Language: C
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• Size: 3.91 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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This is [@WanzenBug](https://github.com/WanzenBug) and mine solution to a small challenge in school. The task was to add 0.0001 to 10000.0 (both `float`) repeated 10M times without arithmetic error. As demonstrated by `trivial.c`, an ordinary loop will fail because of the absorption effect.

We wrote the fastest program, using a minimum heap and running in just under 3 seconds on my laptop, whereas it can take weeks if you get it wrong.