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Re: Catastrophic Cancellation
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Francesco Potorti` |
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Re: Catastrophic Cancellation |
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Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:39:49 +0200 |
>But this particular example is designed specifically for machines
>with 16-bit precision. If we rewrite the same routine using long
>doubles, which with glibc on Linux has roughly 19-bits,
What do you mean, exactly?
>the problem disappears except for a tiny region around zero.
This is true for any precision.
> Soon, the gcc
>compiler and glibc will support the float128 data type which will
>provide 32 bits of precision.
Again, what do you mean by "32 bits of precision"?
The precision of Octave's floating point representation is about 16
decimal digits:
<https://www.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/help-octave/2008-June/009755.html>
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Re: Catastrophic Cancellation,
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