Re: [Mingw-users] GCC 3.2 compiler has different precision than GCC 2.95.3 and MSVC .

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

"Stephen M. Webb" wrote:
> 
> On September 18, 2002 05:06 pm, Oscar Fuentes wrote:
> >
> > Once we accept that floating point numbers are just approximations to
> > real numbers, we should accept that a result is "correct" if it is
> > "good enough". The definition of "good enough" depends on the kind of
> > problem and calculations you are performing. On some fields of
> > Physics, a 10 digit result is overspecified, as the involved measures
> > and constants have just four or five digits of precision.
> 
> My slide rule gives only 3 digits of precision.  Slide rules were good
> enough for decades.  Perhaps all budding computer scientists should be
> required to master the use of the slide rule before being allowed to
> program with floating-point numbers.
> 

I have one still in the original box with the original case if one
desires to have one, perhaps I could arrange for a personal auction. 
;^O

Earnie.