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


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