On Tuesday, 25 August 2015 at 23:09:07 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
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.
I haven't looked at any of this in years. It sounds like the
situation is better now.
