On 11 May 2006 at 21:49, Ray Heasman wrote (excerpted):
> On average, I do not trust the average computer programmer to be a
> computer scientist, and the average computer programmer would produce a
> crummy solution using floating point. Their results would be coloured and
> they would never know why, assuming they ever noticed. For any non-trivial
> algorithm, the implementor would probably have to be a pretty good at
> numerical analysis to figure out the exact effect floating point
> representation would have on their results.
I am not expecting the algorithms to be written by an average computer
programmer, but by the sort of superior computer programmer who
contributes to this forum. Because the final product will be open source,
any bad algorithms that sneak in can be rewritten.
John Sauter ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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