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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: REAL
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:59:51 +0100
Date: 2012-03-14T13:59:51+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ou81y5gru8zh$.1xdmyyyolu0u3$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.64.1203141202570.28027@medsec1.medien.uni-weimar.de

On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:14:05 +0100, stefan-lucks@see-the.signature wrote:

> Hardly anyone cares enough to analyze how the error grows from operation 
> to operation. Hardly anyone even bothers to define how close the result 
> should to be -- which depends on the application at hand, of course. 

It is largely the hardware to blame. When the machine rounds, it is more
difficult to keep track on precision, comparing to a truncating machine (in
either direction).

Of course, interval arithmetic should have replaced IEEE long ago. But
nobody cares.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de



  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-14 12:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-21 15:42 Verified compilers? Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-24  1:41 ` Shark8
2012-02-24  8:52   ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-02-24 17:36   ` Peter C. Chapin
2012-03-06  1:27 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-03-06 17:24   ` Shark8
2012-03-06 17:43     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-03-06 19:03       ` Shark8
2012-03-07  5:33       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-03-07  9:12         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-03-07 17:49           ` Niklas Holsti
2012-03-07 20:17             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-03-07 23:28               ` Usefulness of Formal Notions in Programming (was: Verified compilers?) Georg Bauhaus
2012-03-08  9:24                 ` Usefulness of Formal Notions in Programming Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-03-08 10:30                   ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2012-03-08 12:37                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-03-08  0:42               ` Verified compilers? Randy Brukardt
2012-03-08  9:25                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-03-08 18:10                   ` Niklas Holsti
2012-03-08 20:41                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-03-08 18:02               ` Niklas Holsti
2012-03-08 20:40                 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-03-09  0:44                   ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-03-09 22:13                   ` Niklas Holsti
2012-03-10 10:36                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-03-10 20:35                       ` Niklas Holsti
2012-03-11  9:47                         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-03-11 22:22                           ` Niklas Holsti
2012-03-12  5:12                             ` Niklas Holsti
2012-03-12  9:43                             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-03-14  8:36                               ` Niklas Holsti
2012-03-14  9:24                                 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-03-14 11:14                                   ` REAL (was: Verified compilers?) stefan-lucks
2012-03-14 12:59                                     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2012-03-14 13:30                                       ` REAL Georg Bauhaus
2012-03-14 13:51                                         ` REAL Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-03-14 20:37                                           ` REAL Brian Drummond
2012-03-14 21:52                                             ` REAL Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-03-14 13:52                                         ` REAL georg bauhaus
2012-03-14 17:42                                         ` REAL Jeffrey Carter
2012-03-14 10:14                                 ` Verified compilers? Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-03-14 20:13                                   ` Niklas Holsti
2012-03-11 10:55                         ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-03-10 13:46                     ` Brian Drummond
2012-03-07  1:00     ` Randy Brukardt
2012-03-07 12:42   ` Stuart
2012-03-08  1:06     ` Randy Brukardt
2012-03-08  9:04       ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2012-03-08  9:37         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-03-08 11:23           ` Simon Wright
2012-03-08 12:27             ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-03-08 10:23         ` Brian Drummond
2012-03-08 23:38           ` Bill Findlay
2012-03-09 13:56             ` Brian Drummond
2012-03-09 14:43               ` Shark8
2012-03-09 21:51                 ` Brian Drummond
2012-03-09 15:49               ` Bill Findlay
2012-03-09 20:34                 ` Brian Drummond
2012-03-09 19:40               ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-03-09 20:39                 ` Brian Drummond
2012-03-09 23:59               ` phil.clayton
2012-03-08 15:23         ` Peter C. Chapin
2012-03-09  2:04         ` Randy Brukardt
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