Re: "Numeric overflow"?
Re: "Numeric overflow"?
- Subject: Re: "Numeric overflow"?
- From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 12:29:30 -0600
At 18:31 +0200 9/13/05, Emmanuel wrote:
>Pardon my stubbornness, Jon, but do you have an example of an unreasonably small number, Jon?
A common one that occurs is (1.1 - x) where x is a calculated value that really ought to be exactly 1.1 in decimal but cannot be exactly expressed in binary. Someone's test for = 0 fails but the number is of order 1e-307.
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