Re:Essential facts about floating point calculations
by Sharlin on Monday July 06, 2015 @05:59AM
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> Not true if n == 2! For n = 2 they are exactly the same.
Not true in many other cases either; a trivial example is n=1, or x=1 and n can be represented exactly. In all of the cases the "!=" in the headings is meant to be read "is not necessarily equal" or "there exist expressions e, e' for which e != e'"
Not true in many other cases either; a trivial example is n=1, or x=1 and n can be represented exactly. In all of the cases the "!=" in the headings is meant to be read "is not necessarily equal" or "there exist expressions e, e' for which e != e'"