Re: sqrt C function
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:03:32AM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote:
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| But this is all quite irrelevant to the original question, the point of
| which was, I think, missed by Dimitri Maziuk. Let's back off here and
| restate the original problem, which was:
[...]
| You (dman) seem to be following Dimitri in not dealing with the real
| question, instead drifting off into what seems to me to be a completely
| irrelevant discussion of floating-point precision. Nobody has argued
| that floating-point numbers can represent all rational numbers exactly.
| No one has advocated using equality tests to compare the results of
| floating-point calculations. So I think you're attacking a straw man by
| raising these issues.
Well, I missed the beginning of the thread so no doubt I missed the
original question :-).
-D
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