And furthermore the content isn't as "wow, who'd a thunk it" as the author seems to think it is. I cannot be unusual in knowing that single and double precision floating point numbers just don't cut it for a lot of arithmetic tasks. Surely this is taught in every comp-sci course? And doesn't nearly everyone know the N ⊆ Z ⊆ Q ⊆ A ⊆ R ⊆ C hierarchy?, well nearly everyone doesn't but surely everyone who either decides to write a calculator app or is tasked with writing one ought to know this? The claim "A calculator app? Anyone could make that." is a patently ridiculous claim to me, anybody who would make such a claim is clearly ignorant of both software development and mathematics. Next article. "A text editor? Anyone could make that."
And furthermore the content isn't as "wow, who'd a thunk it" as the author seems to think it is. I cannot be unusual in knowing that single and double precision floating point numbers just don't cut it for a lot of arithmetic tasks. Surely this is taught in every comp-sci course? And doesn't nearly everyone know the N ⊆ Z ⊆ Q ⊆ A ⊆ R ⊆ C hierarchy?, well nearly everyone doesn't but surely everyone who either decides to write a calculator app or is tasked with writing one ought to know this? The claim "A calculator app? Anyone could make that." is a patently ridiculous claim to me, anybody who would make such a claim is clearly ignorant of both software development and mathematics. Next article. "A text editor? Anyone could make that."