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Floating Point Hashing: Why you shouldn't do it, and why I did it one time anyway
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You may have heard that floating point numbers are “numerically unstable” and “shouldn’t be hashed”, but why? Today we’ll learn all the reasons why this is a TERRIBLE idea, and then we’ll break all the rules and do it anyway! What are they going to do, put me in floating point jail? For an addenda post, a collection of bonus content and elaborations on the talk, see: https://sixfold-origami.com/articles/floating-point-hashing-addenda You can find Rose on: GitHub: https://github.com/sixfold-ori
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