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timschmidttoday at 5:03 AM1 replyview on HN

> Floating point is deterministic, what are you talking about?

Order of operations can change a result, for example. I suspect you mean that the algorithm never changes. While op means that mathematical operations which most folks would expect to be reliable are not.


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messetoday at 6:23 AM

They're not associative, sure. But that's a very far cry from claiming they're non-deterministic.

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