10-17, 12:00–12:30 (Europe/Zurich), Aula 4.101
It is common knowledge that floating point numbers (float) are tricky. When misused, floats may lead to construction disaster - I will mention some notable accidents. But mainly, I will dig the topic from Python interface and rounding methods (int vs round, divmod, math library), via special symbols (NaN, Inf, -0.0, …), invoking different processor modes (FLT_ROUNDS), down to the bits of IEEE 754 standard.
Cloud Evangelist, Python trainer and programmer (since 2008). Warsaw Python community member. Author of patents in Orange Labs. Linux and Open Source proponent.