From: ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig)
Subject: Re: [Q] Portability of <= and >= with real operands
Date: 1996/12/03
Date: 1996-12-03T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <581ime$405@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E1u0nL.L0I@thomsoft.com
In comp.lang.ada, kst@aonix.com (Keith Thompson) wrote:
>Suppose you've computed two quantities, X and Y, such that X is
>mathematically known to be less than Y, but it may be arbitrarily close.
Just a general note: Be careful even of this kind of statement unless
you have analyzed your floating point arithmetic and program very
carefully. Rounding errors can even lead to X>Y.
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-11-29 0:00 [Q] Portability of <= and >= with real operands JP Thornley
1996-11-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-03 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-12-03 0:00 ` Thomas Koenig [this message]
1996-12-03 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-12-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-12-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-04 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-12-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-12-01 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-12-02 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
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