vgo96·vor 12 Monaten·discussI think you are discrediting LLMs, gemini 2.5 pro catches most of the flaws in the author's article. I think the author just doesn't understand floating point.
vgo96·vor 12 Monaten·discussThe author says that every real number x can be represented asx = m * 2^pwhere m is an integer(mantissa) and p is an integer (point position)Well this is clearly wrong, take x = 1/3 for example1/3 = m * 2^pm = 1 / (3 * 2^p), where m is an integer, doesn't hold true for any integer p.If the author had read first 2 pages ofhttps://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.h...they could have avoided the embarrassment.