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AP Computer Science: Review of the Basics Drill 3, Problem 2. How would you change the code to avoid issues?

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Thank you We sneak and here's your smoke Use your

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with your floating point joke of the day Why was

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six afraid of seven Because seven eight over we'll go

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to nine all right okay how can you change the

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code to avoid issues if there are any this coat

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right here and here the potential answers Paul's waver All

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right let's go So we're being asked how we change

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this code to avoid potential issues If there are any

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the code intends to run this four loop one hundred

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times and perform a simple mathematical operation on numb each

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time Well no um which starts at zero point one

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is the divisor of one which gives us ten Then

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we subtract nine point nine from that in typical human

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style mathematics this would mean the result is your appoint

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one Then it loops again This time around Nome is

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point one again and again and again until Luke runs

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100 times numb Seems like it should always wind up

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back at zero point one but that's not how it

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works in practice There are issues with his code to

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put it mildly that double we declare it The outset

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is a floating point variable ding dinging five dollar words

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which means it'll be extremely close but never quite exactly

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the number we expect In fact in the video for

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the previous question we explored what's happening more closely and

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here's how numb changes with each iteration ugly So the

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floating point uncertainty gets greater and greater Over time until

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the whole thing more less breaks down unless the programmers

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idea was to get negative ten in the most around

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about confusing way possible Well this code does not work

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so let's look at possible solutions okay used rule ian

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values instead of double Well not quite Julian values are

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either true or false and not designed for numbers be

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used imagers instead of double Well now that's pretty reasonable

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solution Actually of course we've learned in injuries aren't capable

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of decimal places that we'd have to use nothing but

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whole numbers But if we just did a couple of

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tweets to the code here in there and move decimal

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places over one space to create whole numbers well hey

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there we go and this would actually work to we'd

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still get our double that equals zero point one in

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the form of numb to that worked Clever well let's

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go with b but check the others just in case

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option c andy or interesting in that they could be

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used to avoid the problem but not fix it It's

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like saying the bathroom is broken so just go outside

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Okay We've done that before which is to say it

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might work in an emergency at two thirty in the

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morning when the neighbours won't see But it's not a

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real solution Trust us Bad things can happen Long story

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All right option eat There aren't any issues with coat

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Well that's very funny option He really hilarious So let's

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make a mental note not to invite option eating any 00:02:45.185 --> [endTime] more of these things by you

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