On Feb 2, 1:29 pm, Julien Puydt <julien.pu...@laposte.net> wrote: > > > +1 A user asking for a floating-point computation means (s)he is ready > to accept the results are mathematically wrong, but computationally > within a reasonable error range. >
There are lots of reasonable expectations. Like the answer will be the same if the computation is repeated [except for randomized algorithms, perhaps]. I think that a good system will be a lot better than you specified. For example, if a well-known algorithm gets the answer correct exactly, that the routine in Sage should do as well. As I said previously, I think you would be unhappy if cos(0.0) came out as 1.000000000000000999 -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
