At Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:09:13 +0200, Luciano Ribichini wrote: > The computation of J0(5) as shown in the gsl-ref manual gives, on my > machine, a slightly different result: the last three digits are 642 > on my machine with the manual report, for the last three digits, 920 > > I use a 64 bit machine with Debian 5.0 and gsl 1.10 The compiler is > gcc version 4.3.2 > > The minimal code that produce the inconsistency is the one given at > the beginning of the gsl-ref manual to compute J0(5). > > Should I worry about such slight difference in J0(5) between my > machine and the value given in th gsl-ref ? Which one is the > "right" value ?
Thanks for your email. It's safe to ignore the change in the last few digits, since it is O(10^-16) which is at the level of rounding error. -- Brian Gough GNU Scientific Library - http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/ _______________________________________________ Bug-gsl mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gsl
