> > perl -le '$n=1; print "$n \t",((1 + (1/$n))** $n) while $n*=1.001'
> > [...]
> > When to throw away
> > a result as meaningless is certainly an important piece of wisdom,
> > I do not know any programming languages that do it for you
> > -- issue a warning when you've overloaded your accura
What, exactly, would be warned against?
Addition of something that is too small to cause a change
in the result would be easy to check for, it could be made part of
the addition routine;
if warnings are on, issue a warning when
$d != 0 and ($c + $d) == $c
this could be checked before the op
