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Floating Point Hashing: Why you shouldn't do it, and why I did it one time anyway

by Rose Peck

You may have heard that floating point numbers are “numerically unstable” and “shouldn’t be hashed”, but why? Today we’ll learn all the reasons why this is a TERRIBLE idea, and then we’ll break all the rules and do it anyway! What are they going to do, put me in floating point jail?

Audience: All

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Rose Peck

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Extremely average programmer, vacillating between “it’s so over” and “we’re so back”. I write Rust for a living at the Foresight Spatial Labs, making CAD software with the Bevy engine. I love writing, making games, and folding origami! I’m also a grandmaster Tetris player.

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