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Re:Rosalind: Learn bioinformatics by programming it by fao_ on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @04:29PM (#22360601)
I was going to suggest that the result was bad because of floating point error, but then I reread the value and, it doesn't seem like that amount of variance could be produced by errors introduced in the floating point calculations?
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Re:Rosalind: Learn bioinformatics by programming it by patrec on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @07:57PM (#22362086)
You sum 7 numbers all around 100. Assuming I didn't mess up, the maximal floating point error for that is ~100·7·2^-53 which is < 10^-13.
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