Ed Chester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > just a warning to be careful of subtracting or dividing similar numbers in > floating point and what your expectations are for the results. google for > 'catastrophic loss of precision' or similar, or check out the floating point > standard (IEEE #754) for why these fall apart. *most* tests of equality, or > relative size, in *most* architectures, map to subtractions by the time they > get the processor. watch out.
Ed, a cursory look at the search results from Google produced a bunch of items that specifically referred to the floating point Error in the first batch of Pentium chips. As this has been corrected, are there other occurrences of 'catastrophic loss of precision' that can be tested using modern Pentiums (e.g. II - IV) or AMD chips? Some URLs would be helpful here. Thanks. -- Mike Arms _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
