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Consequently, care must be taken when rearranging floating point exceptions to ensure the greatest accuracy of the result.
Risk Assessment
Failing to understand the limitations in precision of floating-point-represented numbers, and the implications of this on the arrangement of expressions, can cause unexpected arithmetic results.
Recommendation | Severity | Likelihood | Remediation Cost | Priority | Level |
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FLP01-A C | low | probable | high | P2 | L3 |
Related Vulnerabilities
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References
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\[[ISO/IEC 9899:1999|AA. C References#ISO/IEC 9899-1999]\] Section 5.1.2.3, "Program execution" \[[ISO/IEC PDTR 24772|AA. C References#ISO/IEC PDTR 24772]\] "PLF Floating Point Arithmetic" |
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FLP00-C. Understand the limitations of floating point numbers 05. Floating Point (FLP) FLP02-AC. Consider avoiding floating point numbers when precise computation is needed