Re: Single/Double precision equality

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 09/27/2014 04:09 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> On Sep 27, 2014, at 1:41 PM, Daniel J Sebald<address@hidden>  wrote:
>
> > Maybe the easiest thing is to concede to arbitrariness and in the documentation add a 
> > third column, an "operator evaluation" column:
> >
> >       Mixed Operation     Evaluate      Storage
> >      -------------------------------------------
> >      double OP single      single       single
> >      double OP integer     double       integer
> >      double OP char        double       double
> >      double OP logical     double       double
> >      single OP integer     single       integer
> >      single OP char        single       single
> >      single OP logical     single       single
>
> I like this idea.  I wrote a script and ran it in Matlab to allow for a quick 
> comparison ...
>
> precedence
> class ( double (0) +  double (1)) ->  double
[snip]
> class (  uint8 (0) +   uint8 (1)) ->  uint8

That would make a good demo script.  Maybe 'test' and 'demo' should 
apply to operators as well.  E.g.,

test ==
demo +

Dan