Hello!
I have discovered a strange (at least so it seems to me) behaviour
of Sage. Here is the problem:
I have a list of tuples of the following format:
(2000, 289.4280)
(2001, 289.5570)
(2002, 289.6050)
(2003, 289.6170)
I get the following strange result:
(289.5750, 289.6170, -0.02800200)
My question is: where do those low order digits come from? And how can
I get rid of them?
When you are performing numerical computations on a computer, you always
have an imprecision due
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 04:42:19 -0800 (PST)
Volker Braun vbraun.n...@gmail.com wrote:
A good read is What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About
Floating-Point Arithmetic:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html
Thank your for the advice. I'll take a look at it.
