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Re: if statement


  • Subject: Re: if statement
  • From: "Sherm Pendley" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 11:21:18 -0400

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Sherman Pendley <email@hidden>
wrote:

And second, comparison of floating-point numbers is an inherently inaccurate
> in *any* programming language.*


I just realized - I forgot the footnote link the * is referring to here. :-(
Here 'tis:

    <http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html>

It's titled "What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point
Arithmetic," It was written in '91, but it's every bit as relevant today as
it was back then. (We have long double now, but that's just more bits - the
basic principles are unchanged.)

sherm--

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