Re: Testing for very small doubles with DBL_EPSILON and _isnan()
In message <36hr25179ntpbso5mml24vt96a8q95384c@4ax.com>, JosephKK
<quiettechblue@yahoo.com> writes
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:19:57 GMT, "Dik T. Winter" <Dik.Winter@cwi.nl>
wrote:
In article <dkol25ted7lh52pq05gignjrvarstj90va@4ax.com>
"JosephKK"<quiettechblue@yahoo.com> writes:
On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:30:04 -0700, Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
wrote:
...
DBL_EPSILON is the difference between 1.0 and the next representable
number above 1.0.
Not really. It specifies the guaranteed accuracy of mathematical
operations, not the resolution.
It would be better if you read the standard before pronouncing things like
this.
Well fudge.
"When in hole, stop digging".
The standard defines it the way that it does. That
definition is in conflict with the way the IEEE-745 compliant hardware
operates.
Since the definition is entirely in terms of how the hardware operates
("next representable number above 1.0"), how can that be?
And i am a hardware type.
I see. And I always thought hardware was based on logic.
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