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  2. Round-off error - Wikipedia

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    Round-by-chop: The base-expansion of is truncated after the ()-th digit. This rounding rule is biased because it always moves the result toward zero. Round-to-nearest: () is set to the nearest floating-point number to . When there is a tie, the floating-point number whose last stored digit is even (also, the last digit, in binary form, is equal ...

  3. Python (programming language) - Wikipedia

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    Guido van Rossum began working on Python in the late 1980s as a successor to the ABC programming language and first released it in 1991 as Python 0.9.0. [36] Python 2.0 was released in 2000. Python 3.0, released in 2008, was a major revision not completely backward-compatible with earlier versions. Python 2.7.18, released in 2020, was the last ...

  4. Command-line completion - Wikipedia

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    But this time introduction-to-command-line-completion.html is not the only file in the current directory that starts with "i". The directory also contains files introduction-to-bash.html and introduction-to-firefox.html. The system can't decide which of these filenames we wanted to type, but it does know that the file must begin with ...

  5. Talk:Command-line interface - Wikipedia

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    It is possible to pass a file path to argv[1] from a GUI shell. Second, not "the command-line interface allows for the idea of piping and filters", but the UNIX philosophy. Not any command line interface allows pipes on one hand, and pipes are perfectly possible via open—dup2—fork-exec without any CLI (but under a compatible kernel) on the ...

  6. Machine epsilon - Wikipedia

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    This alternative definition is significantly more widespread: machine epsilon is the difference between 1 and the next larger floating point number.This definition is used in language constants in Ada, C, C++, Fortran, MATLAB, Mathematica, Octave, Pascal, Python and Rust etc., and defined in textbooks like «Numerical Recipes» by Press et al.

  7. cmd.exe - Wikipedia

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    Command Prompt, also known as cmd.exe or cmd, is the default command-line interpreter for the OS/2, [1] eComStation, ArcaOS, Microsoft Windows (Windows NT family and Windows CE family), and ReactOS [2] operating systems. On Windows CE .NET 4.2, [3] Windows CE 5.0 [4] and Windows Embedded CE 6.0 [5] it is referred to as the Command Processor ...

  8. Rounding - Wikipedia

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    Some programming languages (such as Java and Python) use "half up" to refer to round half away from zero rather than round half toward positive infinity. [4] [5] This method only requires checking one digit to determine rounding direction in two's complement and similar representations.

  9. PHP - Wikipedia

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    Any PHP code in a requested file is executed by the PHP runtime, usually to create dynamic web page content or dynamic images used on websites or elsewhere. [284] It can also be used for command-line scripting and client-side graphical user interface (GUI) applications.