On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 06:50:21AM -0800, Volker Braun wrote: > On Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 8:17:47 AM UTC+1, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: > > > > RR represents the real numbers > > > IMHO we should be very careful to never ever say that. > > RR is floating point arithmetic which is a useful approximation to reals. > > But if you are not aware of the differences then you very quickly run into > problems with == comparisons. Since RR is not the reals the question is: > what is it. The answer to that should always be IEEE floating point or as > close as possible to that, since that is the by far most common definition.
Big +1. Ciao, Thierry > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
