Re: [racket-users] Re: Probabilities in log-space and rounding errors

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 11:24 PM, Paolo Giarrusso wrote: > On 20 October 2015 at 16:44, Laurent wrote: > > Thanks Paolo, yes, I saw that indeed and it is most likely relevant. I > was > > hoping my problem would be sufficiently more specific; in

Re: [racket-users] Re: Probabilities in log-space and rounding errors

Thanks Paolo, yes, I saw that indeed and it is most likely relevant. I was hoping my problem would be sufficiently more specific; in particular, I'd like to detect whether the value being above 0 is likely a rounding error (in which case I can just round it down to 0 again) or likely a mistake on

[racket-users] Re: Probabilities in log-space and rounding errors

On Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 12:15:21 PM UTC+2, Laurent Orseau wrote: > The built-in log-space arithmetic operations are wonderful. (Thanks so much > Neil!) > > > It sometimes happens that after some log-operations where the result is very > close to 0 that it actually goes slightly above 0