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On Jul 26, 10:39=A0pm, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:
>
> It makes little sense to compare decimal representations, which aren't
> exact on most machines. Then before comparing any results, they should be
> rounded to the accuracy of the given method.
>

The discrepancies in the numbers are really insignificant. Yes you're
right about the decimal representations which are not machine
independent.

YC