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Towards an API for the Real Numbers (research.google)
4 points by eru on March 11, 2025 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Hans Boehm (of garbage collector fame) describes how they improved the Android calculator to do the Right Thing instead of just giving the floating point answers.

In case you prefer a video, this paper was discussed in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub86BRzqndA and that's how I discovered it.




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