On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Sherman Pendley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
And second, comparison of floating-point numbers is an inherently inaccurate
> in *any* programming language.*
I just realized - I forgot the footnote link the * is referring to here. :-(
Here 'tis:
<http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html>
It's titled "What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point
Arithmetic," It was written in '91, but it's every bit as relevant today as
it was back then. (We have long double now, but that's just more bits - the
basic principles are unchanged.)
sherm--
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