From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: arithmetic anomaly
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 08:35:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <691e63e8-aff6-cce6-d7b4-7bf6de10363a@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN=4vMqMe-dFWSWLnsn=K9e_gqs+-QedXU_QqOtiqeYO6cV8bg@mail.gmail.com>
On 2021-03-26 7:49 a.m., Roman Perepelitsa wrote:
>
> Aborted based on which condition? If the result of an operation is not
> representable exactly in a double? If so, then even `1. / 10` would
> abort because the real number 0.1 is not representable.
>
Ha! You have a point there! The article you linked talked about some
of these issues, but surely in my case it's simply a plain fact that no
decimal past 15 can be accurate ever? Perhaps in practice this is not
so easy to distinguish but we used to end rounding errors with that
(what's it called?) the 'S' on it's side, the 'approximation' symbol.
Anyway, it's easy for me to preach since I don't have to figure out how
this would work in practice. It's easy to talk about but perhaps not so
easy to code. For now I'm awake to the issue: no accuracy past 15 digits.
> Roman.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-26 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-25 15:52 Ray Andrews
2021-03-25 20:40 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-03-25 22:44 ` Ray Andrews
2021-03-25 22:54 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2021-03-25 23:57 ` Ray Andrews
2021-03-26 0:16 ` Oliver Kiddle
2021-03-26 0:37 ` Ray Andrews
2021-03-26 10:35 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2021-03-26 14:36 ` Ray Andrews
2021-03-26 14:49 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2021-03-26 15:35 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
2021-03-26 17:09 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-03-26 21:45 ` Ray Andrews
2021-03-26 21:59 ` Lawrence Velázquez
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