Instead of reading the old, and somewhat difficult, article by David Goldberg, you can now browse a simpler guide to what programmers should know about floating point arithmetic. This new guide has a the basic explanations and contains links to references, including Goldberg’s article, for those who want to delve deeper.
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Modern IDL offers IDL programmers one place to look, for beginners and advanced users alike. This book also contains: a thorough tutorial on the core topics of IDL; a comprehensive introduction to the object graphics system; common problems and gotchas with many examples; advanced topics not normally found are discussed throughout the book: regular expressions, object graphics, advanced widget programming, performance, object-oriented programming, etc.
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