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From: rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Floating Point Arithmetic
Summary: Garbage is precision-independent :-)
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Date: 8 Nov 90 18:24:09 GMT
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In-Reply-To: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil's message of 7 Nov 90 09:08:43 GMT

In article <14366@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>The real reason for avoiding floats is that unless you already know all
>about this stuff, your computations may produce garbage due to the lack
>of precision attained using single precision.

  Of course, it's just as easy to write code which will give you
double-precision garbage as it is to get single-precision garbage.
(Not a reason not to use 'double' anyway, of course.)

	Anton
   
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