On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 09:26:01PM +0000, david eddy wrote:
>  It figures that if one iteration has a non-sero probability of rounding error
> then 30,000,000 of them will have 100% error rate.

You seem to be assuming that

  a) all iterations will have the same probability of rounding error, and that
  b) the probabilities are independent.

I'm not sure if I want to accept any of those off-hand, especially as the end
result doesn't go well with real-life data.

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