From: Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
Subject: Re: Floating-Point Numbers and Internal Representation
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 14:11:49 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2005-12-04T14:11:49+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dmutf4$gpt$1@nwrdmz03.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1843142.NoXPLYbHQs@linux1.krischik.com>
Martin Krischik wrote:
> Independent of CPU/Language used I would allways suggest to use
>
> abs (X - Y) < epsilon
>
> with a sufficient but not to small epsilon instead.
Suggested reading:
http://www.cygnus-software.com/papers/comparingfloats/comparingfloats.htm
There is more than one answer to this problem...
Cheers
-- Martin
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2005-12-04 10:33 Floating-Point Numbers and Internal Representation Matthias Kretschmer
2005-12-04 11:12 ` Martin Krischik
2005-12-04 14:11 ` Martin Dowie [this message]
2005-12-04 14:50 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-12-04 15:15 ` Matthias Kretschmer
2005-12-04 18:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-12-04 21:16 ` Matthias Kretschmer
2005-12-06 2:54 ` Steve
2005-12-05 23:38 ` Randy Brukardt
2005-12-04 11:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-12-04 21:29 ` Gautier Write-only
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