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Floating point computations demystified

For those who constantly wonder why floating-point results for the same numerical problem tend to vary across architectures, compilers, compiler options and parallel program runs, this paper may be interesting:

David Monniaux, The pitfalls of verifying floating-point computations. arXiv:cs/0701192v5

Especially the first chapters form a nice intro on things you always wanted to know about floating-point but never dared to ask…