6.100L | Fall 2022 | Undergraduate

Introduction to CS and Programming using Python

Lecture 5: Floats and Approximation Methods

An introduction to simple algorithms, float types, and approximation methods. Floating point numbers introduce challenges as they can’t be represented in memory exactly. Approximation methods use these floating numbers.

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