Why 0.1 + 0.2 != 0.3
Every software engineer encounters the floating-point surprise early in their career. But few understand what happens inside ALU registers.
⚡ The Repeating Binary Fraction
In decimal, numbers whose denominators have prime factors other than 2 and 5 repeat infinitely. In binary, only powers of 2 terminate cleanly!
0.1 in binary:
0.00011001100110011...₂
Truncating this to 23 mantissa bits loses exact mathematical precision.
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