On Tuesday, 25 August 2015 at 20:00:11 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
to the next, we have reproducibility. In many cases though, reproducibility doesn't mean exact reproducibility, at least in the old days it didn't, due to floating point issues. You generally want to allow for replication of the results using other languages, so you have to allow for some differences.
You don't get portable results for some builtin float functions, but otherwise I believe the 2008 edition of IEEE is exact. Latest version of ECMAScript also use the 2008 version of IEEE.
