Re: arithmetic anomaly

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2021-03-26 7:49 a.m., Roman Perepelitsa wrote:
> Aborted based on which condition? If the result of an operation is not 
> representable exactly in a double? If so, then even `1. / 10` would 
> abort because the real number 0.1 is not representable.
Ha!  You have a point there!  The article you linked talked about some 
of these issues, but surely in my case it's simply a plain fact that no 
decimal past 15 can be accurate ever?  Perhaps in practice this is not 
so easy to distinguish but we used to end rounding errors with that 
(what's it called?) the 'S' on it's side, the 'approximation' symbol.  
Anyway, it's easy for me to preach since I don't have to figure out how 
this would work in practice.  It's easy to talk about but perhaps not so 
easy to code.  For now I'm awake to the issue: no accuracy past 15 digits.


> Roman.