Re: Spurious long double accuracy
Re: Spurious long double accuracy
- Subject: Re: Spurious long double accuracy
- From: Tommy Nordgren <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 16:20:17 +0100
On 10 dec 2006, at 15.46, Tommy Nordgren wrote:
The predefined compiler macro __LDBL_EPSILON__ is defined to be
4.94066e-324
Recomputing this constant from definition gives the same value.
Now the formal definition for epsilon in respect to floating point
calculation, is the smallest
positive floating point value that when added to 1.0 gives a value
that is not 1.0 with machine precision.
I wonder what is going on here, since both defined and computed
values of this constant
implies a accuracy in floating point calculations with
approximately 300 more significant digits than
available in long double format.
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Tommy Nordgren
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Here is the values of the constants for float, double , and long double:
Epsilon: 1.19209e-07 , 2.22045e-16 , 4.94066e-324
(Generating code):
printf("Epsilon: %g , %g , %Lg
\n",__FLT_EPSILON__,__DBL_EPSILON__,__LDBL_EPSILON__);
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