From: Matthias Kopfermann <matthi@infodrom.north.de>
To: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: print and floating point output
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 16:13:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040511141359.GA32388@finlandia.infodrom.north.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7010.1084281519@csr.com>
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 02:18:39PM +0100, Peter Stephenson:
> Matthias Kopfermann wrote:
> > > If you are doing serious floating point work, unfortunately you need to
> > > understand something about rounding errors, which are a tricky and
> > > ever-present feature.
> >
> > I learned that here.
>
> Good lesson! The principle of least surprise is best satisfied by not
> trusting rounding errors.
it only _depends_ on what the user is expecting.
And _I_ just expected the output of zcalc, python, ruby, perl
and bc when using print with this example. :)
And it's only _default_ we are talking about.
So I am not convinced now but I of course respect this
decision.
Matthias
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-11 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-11 13:08 Matthias Kopfermann
2004-05-11 13:18 ` Peter Stephenson
2004-05-11 14:13 ` Matthias Kopfermann [this message]
2004-05-11 15:07 ` Peter Stephenson
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2004-05-11 11:43 Matthias Kopfermann
2004-05-11 11:57 ` DervishD
2004-05-11 12:01 ` Peter Stephenson
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