From: Sam S. <sd...@gn...> - 2002-08-28 17:22:21
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> * In message <4nl...@rt...> > * On the subject of "Re: expt bug" > * Sent on 28 Aug 2002 13:15:37 -0400 > * Honorable Raymond Toy <to...@rt...> writes: > > >>>>> "Sam" == Sam Steingold <sd...@gn...> writes: > > Sam> this is wrong, even thought it might look good. if floats > Sam> were exact rationals, then the product of two single floats > Sam> would have been a double float. > > Yes, I was being sloppy with words---floats are not exact rationals. > I just want things computed as accurately as possible given the float -------------------------------> precisely, not accurately! :-) CLISP has no idea about accuracy! > that was given, without trying to pretend to know what the actual > accuracy of the float is. exactly! (sorry for nit-picking! :-) -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running RedHat7.3 GNU/Linux <http://www.camera.org> <http://www.iris.org.il> <http://www.memri.org/> <http://www.mideasttruth.com/> <http://www.palestine-central.com/links.html> Your mouse has moved - WinNT has to be restarted for this to take effect. |