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Re: Floating point errors

Tom Brosz — 9/10/2002 4:58:37 PM (archived)

If you have a real-world calculation that requires a fifteenth decimal place to be accurate in order for it to work, then you are doing something seriously wrong in your basic work and should start over again.

This corresponds to a distance of about five millimeters measured against the average distance from the Sun to Pluto.

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New 200 day Super Computer Climate Simulation - Mark Eby - 9/10/2002 2:10:42 PM
- Red herring. - Tom Brosz - 9/10/2002 4:50:12 PM
  - Anti-tech is Red herring. - Mark Eby - 9/10/2002 7:16:14 PM
    - Re: Anti-tech is Red herring. - Tom Brosz - 9/10/2002 11:20:28 AM
- Re: Floating point errors - SM - 9/10/2002 4:35:47 PM
  - You can used fixed-precision numeric datatypes - Larry J - 9/10/2002 5:48:43 PM
    - Re: Dude. - SM - 9/10/2002 6:20:33 PM
      - Re: CSS 342: Mathematical Principles of Computing I - SM - 9/10/2002 6:24:42 PM
  - Re: Floating point errors - Tom Brosz - 9/10/2002 4:58:37 PM
    - It's the iterations that do the damage. - Larry J - 9/10/2002 12:42:08 PM
      - Good point... - Tom Brosz - 9/10/2002 1:40:06 PM
    - Not necessarily true - Tony - 9/10/2002 9:03:01 AM
      - Re: Chaos theory has nothing to do with it - SM - 9/10/2002 6:18:02 PM
- X-Sum Game - How to Stop Global Warming - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/10/2002 4:27:47 PM
  - Re: X-Sum Game - Tom Brosz - 9/10/2002 6:02:20 PM
    - LMAO! - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/10/2002 6:28:36 PM
  - Re: X-Sum Game - postscript - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/10/2002 5:34:34 PM
- Fine, now let them start with the known conditions... - Larry J - 9/10/2002 2:22:25 PM
  - Still Not Answering the Technical Questions - Mark Eby - 9/10/2002 3:22:19 PM
    - If they can run their model to predict the next 1000 years... - Larry J - 9/10/2002 4:03:41 PM
      - You Missed The Point Entirely - Mark Eby - 9/10/2002 7:13:53 PM
        
        And one other thing... - Larry J - 9/10/2002 12:45:53 PM
        
        Got One Point Still Missing A Big One - Mark Eby - 9/11/2002 12:24:03 PM
        
        The answer is more complicated than that - Larry J - 9/10/2002 12:38:47 PM
        
        A Tired and Suspect Excuse - Mark Eby - 9/11/2002 12:05:15 PM
        
        Re: The answer is more complicated than that - gbaikie - 9/10/2002 1:37:32 PM
        
        They're different from every other known ecosystem on Earth - Larry J - 9/11/2002 1:03:09 PM
  - No. - Bowser - 9/10/2002 3:08:29 PM
    - Re: No. - Larry J - 9/10/2002 3:55:54 PM

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