[squeak-dev] I went to Biloxi and all I got was a Tshirt, part 2

Christopher Oliver current.input.port at gmail.com
Tue Mar 20 15:28:03 UTC 2012


On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:27:22 -0400
Chris Cunnington <smalltalktelevision at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's a Ralph Johnson-ism for you: "Floating point is broken 
> arithmetic". 

  The pithiest version of this is Anton Householder's "It makes me nervous to fly on
airplanes since I know they are designed using floating-point arithmetic."

Sweet dreams,

-- 
Christopher Oliver <current.input.port at gmail.com>


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