[Solved] Why does floating-point arithmetic not give exact results when adding decimal fractions?

[ad_1] Binary floating point math is like this. In most programming languages, it is based on the IEEE 754 standard. The crux of the problem is that numbers are represented in this format as a whole number times a power of two; rational numbers (such as 0.1, which is 1/10) whose denominator is not a … Read more

[Solved] What is the simplest way to access array (not vector) element from middle to outermost?

[ad_1] An algorithm to list the elements from innermost to outermost is to pull off the last and first entries (pop and shift) in the array in alternation until no elements are left, then reverse the list of what you have pulled off. This works for odd and even-length arrays naturally. For example, 1,2,3,4,5,6 1,2,3,4,5 … Read more