From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2011 15:18:48 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20111002191431.D7DA7B852@mail.bitblocks.com> References: <20111002163800.GA12773@polynum.com> <20111002175227.2D7F1B856@mail.bitblocks.com> <20111002184015.CD088B852@mail.bitblocks.com> <1a3de3d2869ab078c9a4fdf9bce44982@brasstown.quanstro.net> <20111002191431.D7DA7B852@mail.bitblocks.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] circular fonctions: precision? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2fac6af2-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > > that wasn't my reading of the spec. so you're saying that if > > the iterative algorithm loops 53 times, it's free to return any > > answer whatever and still be compliant? > > That was my reading (but it was a long time ago and I am not a > numerical analyst lawyer. So caveat emptor. You get what you > pay for. etc.) But if you expect to sell your library > presumably you'd care about the quality of impementation! F00F! - erik