Welcome back to a new post on thoughts-on-cpp.com. In today’s post, I would like to talk about the floating-point model of the IEEE 754 standard. Before we start I would like to state that I’m neither a mathematician nor an expert on this topic. I’m just interested in this and I’m learning the best myself by explaining it to others. So feel free to leave comments about misunderstandings or other problems you see in the explanations of this post. As a reference I’m using the IEEE 754 standard and the book “Numerische Mathematik” which is, in my opinion, one of the best books about numerical calculation, but unfortunately only available in German. Read Full Article