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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Subject: Re: Everything You Know Is Wrong
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 13:14:08 +0100
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Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:

> When I started out in S/W development, I learned some rules, such as,
> "Integer math is much faster than floating point," and, "Memory is
> scarce."

Some of the rules which (apparently) aren't wrong yet:

   http://www.cse.msu.edu/~cse320/Documents/FloatingPoint.pdf

Greetings,

Jacob
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