2017-07-21

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The answer lies in the weirdness of floating-point numbers and the computer's perception of a number line.

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Making Probability Mathematical

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Written and Hosted by Kelsey Houston-Edwards

Produced by Rusty Ward

Graphics by Ray Lux

Assistant Editing and Sound Design by Mike Petrow

Made by Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com)

Resources:

Random ASCII

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/comparing-floating-point-numbers-2012-edition/

Special thanks to Professor Alex Townsend

In 1994, Intel recalled - to the tune of $475 million - an early model of their Pentium processor after they discovered it was making arithmetic errors. Arithmetic mistakes - like the one Intel’s Pentium processors were making - are often rooted in computer’s unusual version of the real number line.

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