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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Floating Point Arithmetic
Message-ID: <14406@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 9 Nov 90 07:36:54 GMT
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In article <RANG.90Nov8132409@nexus.cs.wisc.edu> rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang) writes:
>  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.

I disagree.  Except for special, heavily iterative algorithms that would
probably not be attempted by the naive, generally double-precision
arithmetic produces usable answers more often than single-precision would.