Kagamin wrote: > It's not me, it's the programmer. He was disgusted that his > algorithm produced garbage, which means, the error was > unacceptable. Mat be it was 1%, may be 80%, I don't, that was > his decision, that the result was unacceptable. The bug > description assumes the problem was in the last bit, which > means, he wanted precision higher than the machine precision.
This thread is about a bug in a CPU's floating point implementation. Regardless of which bit of the floating point representation is affected, it's a bug.
Ali
