> The root of this specific problem is breaking the commandments of
> floating-point:
To complement this, I like this article:
"What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point
Arithmetic":
http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html
While we're posting links...
http://www.cygnus-software.com/papers/comparingfloats/comparingfloats.htm
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"One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of
their C programs." --Robert Firth
Marc C. Brooks
http://musingmarc.blogspot.com
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