# Machine Precision ... and 0 in Julia

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/machine-precision-and-0-in-julia/42767>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [July 9, 2020, 4:04am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/machine-precision-and-0-in-julia/42767 "2020-07-09T04:04:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![rdeits](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rdeits/32/286_2.png) [@rdeits](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rdeits)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 4:59am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/machine-precision-and-0-in-julia/42767/3 "2020-07-09T04:59:10Z")

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For a nice write-up of this, see [PSA: floating-point arithmetic](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/psa-floating-point-arithmetic/8678)

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