Re: 64bit processing - Why?
Re: 64bit processing - Why?
- Subject: Re: 64bit processing - Why?
- From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:09:12 -0700
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Ethan Funk<email@hidden> wrote:
> If I go from single to double, then *dither* back to single, I don't lose
> anything from the original single. I should be able to do that over and
> over again with out degradation correct? Or is my assumption wrong - is the
> dither "noise" additive?
A bit of information theory will help you here: yes, you have
irrevocably lost precision. You will lose information every time you
perform this operation.
--Kyle Sluder
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