Numerical Difficulties in Pre-University Informatics Education and Competitions

It is easy to underestimate the difficulties of using floating-point numbers in programming. This is especially the case in pre-university informatics education and competitions, where one is often led to believe that floating-point arithmetic is a good approximation of the real number system. Howev...

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Main Authors: Gyula HORVÁTH, Tom VERHOEFF
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Vilnius University 2003-10-01
Series:Informatics in Education
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Online Access:https://infedu.vu.lt/doi/10.15388/infedu.2003.03