Chapter 6. Floating Point (FLP)

Recommendations and Rules

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Risk Assessment Summary

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Related Rules and Recommendations

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FLP00-C. Understand the limitations of floating-point numbers

The C programming language provides the ability to use floating-point numbers for calculations. C99 specifies requirements on a conforming implementation for floating-point numbers but makes few guarantees about the specific underlying floating-point representation because ...

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