11 Mar
2012
11 Mar
'12
6:23 p.m.
Le 2012-03-10 à 16:31:00, Charles Henry a écrit :
How about an abstraction that uses <= against 2xepsilon*|input|? That would be a reliable automatic way to ignore single-bit rounding errors.
Don't you wish rounding errors would be at most single-bit.
But as you compose more operations together, error can accumulate and/or amplify.
This is why no-one uses a definition of == with a hardcoded epsilon in it, in any programming language that I ever heard of.
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