On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Przemek Klosowski < przemek.klosow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/4/11, Igor Chudov <ichu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I re-wrote Andy's function to compare the absolute value of the diff, and > > compare that to 1E-07. I know that this is crazy, ugly, and stupid. But > it > > works beautifully. > > NO, absolutely not stupid at all. This is in fact the only sane way of > comparing floating point numbers, recommended in all numerical > analysis textbooks. > > Whils I kind of agree in general (I do numerical modeling too, for a living), here we are essentially comparing a == a and it fails. See my another post in this thread about GCC bug 323. My concern with doing what I am doing, is that if I wanted the knee to move at glacial speed, it would shut off. But I know that I do not need it. i ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What You Don't Know About Data Connectivity CAN Hurt You This paper provides an overview of data connectivity, details its effect on application quality, and explores various alternative solutions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/progress-d2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
