# I will never understand floating-point arithmetic

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**Tags:** float, precision\
**Created:** [March 8, 2024, 10:27am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/i-will-never-understand-floating-point-arithmetic/111342 "2024-03-08T10:27:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 4:05pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/i-will-never-understand-floating-point-arithmetic/111342/19 "2024-03-08T16:05:15Z")

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Ha! Please look at my only message on this forum, with three likes by the way! But keep in mind, in fact, I don’t fully understand either, but I hope that when it comes down to it, I’ll turn to this lesson and definitely understand!

> [@Huge computation error in Float32?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/huge-computation-error-in-float32/106746/12):
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> Here the topic is explained in a very accessible and gentle manner using Julia: [Fundamentals of Numerical Computation. Floating-point numbers](https://tobydriscoll.net/fnc-julia/intro/floating-point.html)

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