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Subject: C FLOATING POINT BUG - OR IS IT ? 
Message-ID: <1991May24.074503.652@nic.csu.net>
From: r2sms@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU (Sujat M Sukthankar)
Date: 24 May 91 07:45:02 PDT
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                  - A CHALLENGE
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Date: 24 May 91 14:31:16 GMT
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      The following is a major/minor bug which maybe/may not be trivial.

Try assigning a "float" variable to a "double" variable - results in a
loss of accuracy with the magnitude being greater for larger numbers. A
"promotion" should result in better accuracy and not viceversa. A simple
rogram was tested on the Microsoft Ver 6 compiler and also the watcom
386 compiler. The problem started off as trivial but still hasn't been
solved.             

                     
      
       See if you any of you guys out there can do it.

n a better accuracy