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From: Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Newbie Q
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:24:45 +0000 (UTC)
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Dr. Adrian Wrigley wrote:
> (what is the rationale for delta /= small?)

I think of it as:

'delta' is the programmers minimum requirement in the problem space
'small' is the compilers implementation of that in the solution space

Cheers

-- Martin