Double it Like Dekker: A Remarkable Technique to Double Floating Point Precision (Part 1)

This video is an introduction to Double Double arithmetic. Which is a technique used to greatly improve the precision of floating point computations in programming. It was first proposed by T. J. (Dirk) Dekker in his paper from 1971. Link to Dekker's original paper: https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~pbarfuss/dekker1971.pdf Support What's a Creel? on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/whatsacreel FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/whatsacreel/ Software used to make this vid: Visual Studio 2019 Community: https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/ Audacity: https://www.audacityteam.org/ Davinci Resolve 16: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/ OpenOffice: https://www.openoffice.org/ Gimp: https://www.gimp.org/