Re: g77 issues

[Ionut Georgescu]

Ionut Georgescu sends greetings to Sven LUTHER

>On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:50:34AM +0100, Nick Bailey wrote:
>

I do know that, but, does one really need 64bit to 'resolve' e-16 ? And,
why does the print* in the fermi function print out 1.0 at the first place
? I expect that the function returns 1., as it is printed out, not
.998 ;-)


>Also, note that alpha is a 64bit plateform, and that as thus it could be that
>it handles some things better than ia32 or ppc. Not sure if this influences
>floating point values, i guess not.
>
>Friendly,
>
>Sven Luther
>
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Re: g77 issues CASE CLOSED :))

[Ionut Georgescu]

Ionut Georgescu sends greetings to Pawel Salek

>
>It wasn't necesserily correct. Just the digits displayed were correct
>because 0.999 is rounded up to 1. when displayed with 9 digits
>after comma. Ask to display 20 digits and you will most likely see the
>noise.

You were right. 20 digits makes a _big_ difference. Now all I can say is
sorry for making such a big fuzz out of this. So, CASE CLOSED. :))

Regards,
Ionut

PS When getting different results on different platforms one starts
wondering which platform is actually 'physics friendly' :))


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