Re: a numeric bug.
Re: a numeric bug.
- Subject: Re: a numeric bug.
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:13:08 +0200
At 9:05 AM +0100 9/15/05, has wrote:
deivy petrescu wrote:
I don't get it. 10^23 is way below AS numeric limit (which I
believe is over 10^300).
The precision limit is much lower, however - approx. ±9e15. Beyond
that they're only approximations, and calculations involving the
least significant digits are going to have inaccuracies.
I think that Deivy's point is that when it comes to take the "mod" a
smart computer storing 1.000 as the mantissa and 24 as the exponent
of 10 should be able to give the correct result. I am not a
specialist in maths, but I think that "mod" is special for that.
Emmanuel
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