on 10/13/03 1:56 PM, Dan Sugalski at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Welcome to the wonderful world of inexact representations.
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Thank you!! I'll read up on this today, and hopefully the workarounds will suffice for my customers.
Have you seen this paper? David Goldberg, "What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic" ACM Computing Surveys, Vol 23, No 1, March 1991.
Available (among other places) at:
http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html
Also, there's
Guy Steele, Jr. & Jon White, "How to Print Floating-Point Numbers Accurately," Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 1990 conference on Programming language design and implementation.
http://www.acm.org/pubs/citations/proceedings/pldi/93542/p112-steele/
(I don't know if it's available free anywhere. Sorry.)
That's my 2.00000000001 cents.
--Shawn
