Am I the only one who thought "What the hell is 'Functional Programming Arithmetic' " after reading this headline? :)
I once had a more detailled look at floating-point numbers, and yes, it's quite a big topic. I like the site, because it's kept quite short, and it describes a few important aspects in regard to the usage of floating-point numbers in your programs (e.g. Comparison).
Coincidentally, I was in the process of doing the same thing. Then I came across http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/184403224 which said what I wanted to say, exactly.
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Maybe you want to mention that there's also an IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic: http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/754/
The headline needed to be shortened to fit the 80 character limit :)
I've linked to the Wikipedia page of the IEEE standard, but adding the original source is probably a good idea.
Nice, informative site though.
Is it normal that I have only two real fears, Mosquitos and Floating Point Arithmetic?
(And I know most of FPA stuff and few most useful numerically stable algorithms)
BONUS POINTS: Which part of question is off-topic? :)