Re: [julia-users] Re: Julia users Berlin

2015-02-28 Thread jung . felix
Hi guys, I'm based in Berlin and have switched to Julia from R for my current research project (credit risk modelling) Humboldt University. I have about 1 year of experience with Julia. I'm interested in pretty much anything that's above entry level. Felix

Re: [julia-users] Numerical precision of simple mathematical operations

2015-02-13 Thread jung . felix
Thanks for all the replies. I considered working with BigFloats and other data types. However, after reading this article by John Cook , I got the idea that the main problem I'm having is the subtraction when c

[julia-users] Numerical precision of simple mathematical operations

2015-02-12 Thread jung . felix
Hi, I've run into a problem that I hadn't even considered so far. When computing the analytical solution to a positive integral (its an integral over a quadratic function) I got extremely negative values from Julia. Here is some example code: function compute(f1, f2, f3, d, l, u) ## Some a