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Floating point imprecision / errors ⚠️
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Most folks doing anything with zooming or really big or small numbers run into floating point imprecision at some point. Here's my zoomed-in spiral glitching out (around 1/1000000 the size of a hydrogen atom): https://youtu.be/EA9fKc_XxQA
Here's Computerphile's explainer: https://youtu.be/PZRI1IfStY0
This might be a funny topic for a whole Coding Train. Has it been touched on in other episodes?
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