Talk:Addition

:After that we get a paragraph about overflow, and a paragraph about floating point numbers that is inscrutable who anyone who doesn't know what they are and uselessly vague to anyone who does.

:After that we get a paragraph about overflow, and a paragraph about floating point numbers that is inscrutable who anyone who doesn't know what they are and uselessly vague to anyone who does.

:I think the whole section should be substantially rewritten and reorganized before anyone wastes time trying to source each half-sentence. –[[user:jacobolus|jacobolus]] [[user_talk:jacobolus|(t)]] 04:04, 8 July 2025 (UTC)

:I think the whole section should be substantially rewritten and reorganized before anyone wastes time trying to source each half-sentence. –[[user:jacobolus|jacobolus]] [[user_talk:jacobolus|(t)]] 04:04, 8 July 2025 (UTC)

::It does seem rather muddled: the message appears to be "addition on a computer often changes the addends" except in anything higher-level than assembly language, when it doesn't. That section needs de-crufting before sourcing. [[User:Stepwise Continuous Dysfunction|Stepwise Continuous Dysfunction]] ([[User talk:Stepwise Continuous Dysfunction|talk]]) 16:30, 8 July 2025 (UTC)