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• Floating Point Arithmetic

• Floating Point And Benford's Law, Part Two

  A number of readers asked for an explanation of my offhand comment that Benford's Law can be used to show that binary is the best base for doing floating point math. One of the desired properties of a floating point system is that the "representation Read More... Posted Thursday, January 13, 2005 9:54 AM by Eric Lippert | 7 Comments Filed under: Rarefied Heights, Floating Point Arithmetic, Benford's Law

• Benford's Law

  While I was poking through my old numeric analysis textbooks to refresh my memory for this series on floating point arithmetic, I came across one of my favourite weird facts about math. A nonzero base-ten integer starts with some digit other than zero. Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 12, 2005 12:18 PM by Eric Lippert | 25 Comments Filed under: Rarefied Heights, Floating Point Arithmetic, Benford's Law