Walter Bright Wrote: > > Really? I think, the answer is neither correct nor wrong. It's approximate. > > The rules for rounding the mathematical value to the representation are > precise, > and so there is such a thing as the correctly rounded result and the wrong > result.
Well, maybe, but the result fits well in machine precision (which is equal to the last bit). And if this precision is not enough for the algorithm, then the algorithm is incorrect on any x87 FPU, and its output is garbage.
