Floating-point arithmetic

Layer 0 — Mathematicsin the numerical-analysis subtree

IEEE 754 standard: numbers represented as ±(1.f)₂ × 2^e, with finite precision (typ. 53 bits). Introduces round-off error on every operation; ε_machine ≈ 2^{-52} for double.

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