Lec 5 | MIT 6.00 Introduction to Computer Science and Programming, Fall 2008

Lecture 5: Floating point numbers, successive refinement, finding roots

Instructors: Prof. Eric Grimson, Prof. John Guttag

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at 14:30 - 1.0 times....anybody? LOL!

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[javierbaldrich]

Thank you so much Prof Guttag!

[awsomenesscaleb]

Every time he tells a joke. . .

*awkward silence*

[calculusisamazing]

Thanks professor for lecturing to an empty audience just for us youtubers!

Also, thanks for clarifying squareRootBi, got a bit confused there.

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[happenchance]

BTW, starting with Python 3.1, x = 0.1 will return 0.1

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