Floating-Point Will Still Be Broken In the Year 2091

Variants of the question “Is floating point math broken?” are asked every day on Stackoverflow.com. I don’t think the questions will ever stop, not even by the year 2091 (that’s the year that popped into my head after just reading the gazillionth such question).

(Follow the tags floating-accuracy, floating-point, floating-point-precision, and floating-point-conversion — you’ll see what I mean.)