Hick Gunter, on Tuesday, May 28, 2019 02:42 AM, wrote...
>Think of floating point as a knapsack problem.
Thanks for the nice explanation...
>So instead of complaining that the IEEE cylinder set causes undue
> stress on your knapsacks, please choose a more suitable set of
> cylinders for your
Think of floating point as a knapsack problem. The decimal number you want to
represent is the height of the (cylindrical) knapsack. You have a set of
cylinders you want to stack into the knapsack. The IEEE set of cylinders has
the essential property that each cylinder is larger then the sum of
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