From: "Soegtrop, Michael" <michael.soegtrop@intel.com>
To: "Soegtrop, Michael" <michael.soegtrop@intel.com>,
"Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>,
"Viet Le" <vietlq85@gmail.com>,
"caml-list@inria.fr" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Float precision in OCaml
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 14:07:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0F7D3B1B3C4B894D824F5B822E3E5A175B2829A1@IRSMSX102.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0F7D3B1B3C4B894D824F5B822E3E5A175B282955@IRSMSX102.ger.corp.intel.com>
P.S.:
the discussion on the Maxima list was about what sin(2^1000) should be. At 2^1000 a double LSB is zillions of Pi, so that one can argue that the proper answer should be "something between -1 and 1". The IEEE standard though requires that 2^1000 is treated as an exact number and not as 2^1000 +- 2^(1000-53) and that sin(2^1000) is computed to full precision. The same ideas hold at the small end of numbers.
Best regards,
Michael
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-01 14:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-01 10:47 Viet Le
2017-08-01 11:18 ` Nicolás Ojeda Bär
2017-08-01 11:25 ` Frédéric Bour
2017-08-01 11:45 ` Viet Le
2017-08-01 11:40 ` François Bobot
2017-08-01 11:42 ` Viet Le
2017-08-01 11:48 ` François Bobot
2017-08-01 12:12 ` Daniel Bünzli
2017-08-01 12:56 ` Viet Le
[not found] ` <etPan.59807b8a.db32dee.123@AirmailxGenerated.am>
2017-08-01 13:17 ` Daniel Bünzli
2017-08-01 13:57 ` Soegtrop, Michael
2017-08-01 14:07 ` Soegtrop, Michael [this message]
2017-08-01 15:48 ` Peter Thiemann
2017-08-01 17:12 ` Soegtrop, Michael
2017-08-02 7:41 ` Peter Thiemann
[not found] ` <etPan.5980c173.1234cb4.123@AirmailxGenerated.am>
2017-08-01 18:05 ` Daniel Bünzli
2017-08-02 5:46 ` Viet Le
2017-08-02 8:22 ` Soegtrop, Michael
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