On Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at 5:15:12 AM UTC+8, Jens Axel Søgaard wrote:
> 2017-04-17 22:56 GMT+02:00 Vincent St-Amour :
> (For people following along, the issue is that there exists a value `x`
>
> such that `(= (+ x 1e-17) x)`, and that the iteration reaches that `x`
>
> as its state at some po
I agree. I'll add a note to the docs.
Vincent
On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 16:16:49 -0500,
Tim Jervis wrote:
>
> I like the document route; anyone who is happy with the performance tradeoff
> would be free to implement a more conservative version.
>
> On 17 Apr 2017, at 21:59, Ben Greenman wrote:
>
I like the document route; anyone who is happy with the performance tradeoff
would be free to implement a more conservative version.
> On 17 Apr 2017, at 21:59, Ben Greenman wrote:
>
> Maybe, just add a note to the docs?
>
>> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 4:56 PM, Vincent St-Amour
>> wrote:
>> The
2017-04-17 22:56 GMT+02:00 Vincent St-Amour
:
> (For people following along, the issue is that there exists a value `x`
> such that `(= (+ x 1e-17) x)`, and that the iteration reaches that `x`
> as its state at some point, then loops.)
>
What is the smallest y such that no x exists such that (=
Maybe, just add a note to the docs?
On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 4:56 PM, Vincent St-Amour <
stamo...@eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> The latter is easy to fix; I've submitted a pull request.
>
> The former is trickier. The problem is not so much due to the step size
> itself, but rather to a combinat
The latter is easy to fix; I've submitted a pull request.
The former is trickier. The problem is not so much due to the step size
itself, but rather to a combination of the step size and of a particular
iteration state.
(For people following along, the issue is that there exists a value `x`
such
Dear Racket Users,
I’ve noticed the following procedure calls don’t return (on my 64 bit Mac
hardware):
(range (- 1 1e-16) 1.0 1e-17)
(range 0 1 0)
While (2) is obvious, (1) tripped me up (as I hadn’t noticed my step size had
fallen to effectively zero).
A small tweak to for.rkt in the racket
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