Ionut Georgescu sends greetings to Sven LUTHER >On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:50:34AM +0100, Nick Bailey wrote: >
I do know that, but, does one really need 64bit to 'resolve' e-16 ? And, why does the print* in the fermi function print out 1.0 at the first place ? I expect that the function returns 1., as it is printed out, not .999999999999998 ;-) >Also, note that alpha is a 64bit plateform, and that as thus it could be that >it handles some things better than ia32 or ppc. Not sure if this influences >floating point values, i guess not. > >Friendly, > >Sven Luther > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *************** * Ionut Georgescu * http://www.physik.tu-cottbus.de/~george/ * ICQ: 38973105 * "In Windows you can do everything Microsoft wants you to do; in Unix you * can do anything the computer is able to do."