Mike McCarty wrote: > From the website... > > "Since floating point computations are inexact, after every iteration > the floating point values are rounded back to integers." > > Floating point operations are not inexact. There is exactly one > properly computed result for any given floating point operation. > That is not what inexact means, though. Inexact means that the result is not (always) exactly correct. Your definition would be saying that they are precise (repeatable), but they are still not exact.
> This statement unfortunately perpetuates a misconception about > floating point. Perhaps a slight re wording, along the lines of > > "Since floating point operations do not always produce exactly > the same results as the corresponding operations with real numbers, > That's what "inexact" means in this context. > the floating point values are rounded to integers." > > would be appropriate. > > Mike > D _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [email protected] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
