fixed, in light of the prior crucial comment... https://play.golang.org/p/d-AwGEwj_YB
On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 12:20 PM <craterm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Floating point calculations are imprecise. > > https://0.30000000000000004.com/ > > https://www.phys.uconn.edu/~rozman/Courses/P2200_15F/downloads/floating-point-guide-2015-10-15.pdf > > s > > On Monday, June 1, 2020 at 11:56:55 AM UTC-7, Saksham Saxena wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I was trying to implement Substring Search using a rolling hash function >> (fairly simple implementation): https://play.golang.org/p/_fjgxPC06So >> >> This works correctly and as expected. However, if you change the const >> `baseNumber` to 128, the program is unable to do the intermediate >> arithmetic incorrectly (see the difference after running it). >> >> How could this be ? I've stared at it long enough and it doesn't seem >> like it's overflowing (or is it really ? I thought float64 had great range >> ?) >> >> Any ideas/comments are appreciated. >> >> Thanks! >> Saksham >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/d071b2be-9fc1-45e4-9da8-baecb9968ea7%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/d071b2be-9fc1-45e4-9da8-baecb9968ea7%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- *Michael T. jonesmichael.jo...@gmail.com <michael.jo...@gmail.com>* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CALoEmQxs8vmTE89qb-pHGgO9w3kVxPB3qOQdcYRstDB0Tdw%3DNw%40mail.gmail.com.
