Re: Why no new posts ? Float accuracy

["Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen.adalog@wanadoo.fr>]

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"Nicolas Brunot" <n.brunot@cadwin.com> a �crit dans le message news: 3A125C2A.2E3BD2F@cadwin.com...
> About 10 years ago, I had to rewrote an existing Ada implemention of a method
> called CESTAC method, which gave amazing results in giving the number of correct
> digits in the result of a floating point operation.
> (With surprising results for those who are too much confident in the accuracy
> they can expect, and rely only on
> type my_float is digits N, with N 'large enough')
>
> I remember this method was originally developped in a French university in Paris
> for Ada implementation.
> I don't know if this method is still used today.
>

It is. The tool is called CADNA, it was developped and is still maintained by University Paris VI (Jussieu), and marketed by a
company called Numeral Advance. See http://www-anp.lip6.fr/english/cadna/ for details.
It is available for Ada, Fortran, C, C++.

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