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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How not to write a loop
Message-ID: <7409@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 3 Mar 88 21:38:37 GMT
References: <296@draken.nada.kth.se> <64400004@convex>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <64400004@convex> cuddy@convex.UUCP writes:
>Only if you declare things as floats!

This is of course wrong.  Floating-point imprecision is not due
simply to float<->double conversion, but is inherent in the
whole approach.