On 2020-05-13 13:13 -0700, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > In general, any time you deal with floating > point numbers having different magnitudes, > you risk pushing some low precision bits > out of the result. Simply changing the > sequence of calculations such as a literal > polynomial evaluation versus Horner's > method can obtain different results. Take a > course in Numerical Analysis to learn > more. > > [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horner%27s_method > [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_analysis
Right, it seems fairly interesting. I'll look into it at some point. /JR
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