And to that I say, welcome to the world of fixed-precision floating point numbers.
----- Original Message ----- From: Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, September 28, 2007 17:22 Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] /. in inverted tables To: Programming forum <[email protected]> > On 9/28/07, Roger Hui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > a. What does it mean to say that something "is not arithmetic"? > .. > > In this case the difference is less than one part in 3 trillion. > > Please define "very different".> > > I would answer both of these with: > > The same function is applied to numerically the same argument > and the result is different. > > (I'll agree that "very" does not add any meaning.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
