Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about floating point numbers: how they work, why they're weird, and when you definitely shouldn't use them (hint: mo money mo problems).

Edge Cases 83: Floating Point Numbers Are a Leaky Abstraction

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Wolf on the why of software change and Andrew on GUI debugging tools, real and imagined.

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Andrew on Apple's Swift framework problem and Wolf on bitcode for software distribution.

Edge Cases 83: Floating Point Numbers Are a Leaky Abstraction

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