From: Markus Mottl <mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at>
To: Jan Skibinski <jans@numeric-quest.com>
Cc: wester@ilt.fhg.de, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Complex numbers in OCaml
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 21:25:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010327212533.A24387@miss.wu-wien.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103271241170.23430-100000@info.numeric-quest.com>; from jans@numeric-quest.com on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 12:48:55 -0500
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Jan Skibinski wrote:
> Or not. :-)
>
> One of the articles by William Kahan (www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/)
> "How JAVA's Floating-Point Hurts Everyone Everywhere" discusses
> (among other things) some traps in complex number implementations,
> including those in Fortran.
Really interesting article! I always believed that doing floating-point
arithmetic correctly was a tricky business - now I am convinced... ;)
Good to know for us that OCaml is at least extremely close to the IEEE
754 standard, though there is still criticism in this article that is
relevant for OCaml, too (e.g. things like non-availability of extended
double-precision; lack of operator overloading; etc.). Luckily, my needs
for numerical computation are not this high...
Regards,
Markus Mottl
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Markus Mottl, mottl@miss.wu-wien.ac.at, http://miss.wu-wien.ac.at/~mottl
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-27 16:22 wester
2001-03-27 17:19 ` Markus Mottl
2001-03-27 17:48 ` Jan Skibinski
2001-03-27 19:25 ` Markus Mottl [this message]
2001-03-28 1:04 ` Michael Hohn
2001-03-29 14:26 ` Xavier Leroy
2001-03-27 17:49 Arturo Borquez
2001-09-21 22:25 [Caml-list] Complex numbers in ocaml Post Office!~/sentmail
2001-09-22 17:59 ` John Max Skaller
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