On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Drax Felton <[email protected]> wrote: > > Simon, You are correct. > > I produce software "products" for a living. Mostly for the banking industry > where there is zero tolerance for some practices. > > Example: > The solution is never allowed to be "Just make an offsetting entry in your > general ledger for the lost coins." "Because Your Computer makes errors in > rounding off with floating point arithmetic." "You need to demand that > Intel make CPUs that don't have floating point issues." > > No - We code to handle currency, decimal points correctly!
Certainly. But when your floating-point unit begins to produce errors, you don't rewrite your software to check the output of the FPU. You repair or replace the FPU. (OK, I come from a time when the FPU was actually a board and we could and would repair the board. :-) -- 73 de Brian, WB6RQN/J79BPL _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using alpha and beta versions of the software.
