Why are computers so accurate?
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Your question could be improved, I think.
Computers is too broad. Accuracy is too broad.
But to answer it, in part, you could look at IEEE double precision floating point numbers. That would give you an idea of the numerical precision of languages which use IEEE floating point. This gives about 16 decimal digits of precision. ( Technically, precision and accuracy are different things, but I am presuming this is one possible question you might have had.)
One way in which computers have accuracy issues, is corrupted data. I have no stats on how often corrupted data occurs. This is probably a broad topic. But some brief statements on it can be made. Memory is subject to possible corruption by cosmic rays. This is rare, but does happen. Some computers use error correction systems to handle corrupted memory. Your mobile, laptop and desktop computers likely don’t. Storage can suffer corruption. So backing up your computer is suggested.
Your question could be improved, I think.
Computers is too broad. Accuracy is too broad.
But to answer it, in part, you could look at IEEE double precision floating point numbers. That would give you an idea of the numerical precision of languages which use IEEE floating point. This gives about 16 decimal digits of precision. ( Technically, precision and accuracy are different things, but I am presuming this is one possible question you might have had.)
One way in which computers have accuracy issues, is corrupted data. I have no stats on how often corrupted data occurs. This is probably a broad topic. But some brief statements on it can be made. Memory is subject to possible corruption by cosmic rays. This is rare, but does happen. Some computers use error correction systems to handle corrupted memory. Your mobile, laptop and desktop computers likely don’t. Storage can suffer corruption. So backing up your computer is suggested.
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Computers is too broad. Accuracy is too broad.
☛ But to answer it, in part, you could look at IEEE double precision floating point numbers. That would give you an idea of the numerical precision of languages which use IEEE floating point. This gives about 16 decimal digits of precision. ( Technically, precision and accuracy are different things, but I am presuming this is one possible question you might have had.)
☛ One way in which computers have accuracy issues, is corrupted data. I have no stats on how often corrupted data occurs. This is probably a broad topic.
☛ But some brief statements on it can be made. Memory is subject to possible corruption by cosmic rays. This is rare, but does happen. Some computers use error correction systems to handle corrupted memory. Your mobile, laptop and desktop computers likely don’t. Storage can suffer corruption. So backing up your computer is suggested.
☛ But to answer it, in part, you could look at IEEE double precision floating point numbers. That would give you an idea of the numerical precision of languages which use IEEE floating point. This gives about 16 decimal digits of precision. ( Technically, precision and accuracy are different things, but I am presuming this is one possible question you might have had.)
☛ One way in which computers have accuracy issues, is corrupted data. I have no stats on how often corrupted data occurs. This is probably a broad topic.
☛ But some brief statements on it can be made. Memory is subject to possible corruption by cosmic rays. This is rare, but does happen. Some computers use error correction systems to handle corrupted memory. Your mobile, laptop and desktop computers likely don’t. Storage can suffer corruption. So backing up your computer is suggested.
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