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In a recent study titled Usage and Attribution of Stack Overflow Code Snippets in GitHub Projects, an answer I wrote almost a decade ago was found to be the most copied snippet on Stack Overflow. Ironically it happens to be buggy.
The challenge of accurately representing real numbers in digital systems. In decimal, we therefore have to represent real numbers only to a certain number of significant figures.
Real numbers cannot be precisely represented in digital form – we approximate them. The simplest way is to use a fixed-point representation.