You are developing a financial application where precision is crucial. Which arithmetic operation could potentially introduce errors due to floating-point representation?
- Addition
- Division
- Multiplication
- Subtraction
While all floating-point arithmetic can introduce precision errors due to the nature of their representation, division is particularly notorious because it can generate repeating fractional components that might not be accurately represented in binary floating-point. This can lead to small errors that accumulate in financial calculations.
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