Re:Essential facts about floating point calculations
by vhffm on Monday July 06, 2015 @05:50AM
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There's an additional caveat that may be of interest.
If you execute code in parallel, you may pick up different round-off errors unless you take care to combine the results from parallel tasks in the same order every time.
This can be a problem when simulating non-linear dynamical systems (such as the Solar System).
If you execute code in parallel, you may pick up different round-off errors unless you take care to combine the results from parallel tasks in the same order every time.
This can be a problem when simulating non-linear dynamical systems (such as the Solar System).