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Re: print and floating point output

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
To: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: print and floating point output
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 14:18:39 +0100
In-reply-to: "Matthias Kopfermann"'s message of "Tue, 11 May 2004 15:08:57 +0200." <20040511130857.GA24416@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Matthias Kopfermann wrote:
> > If you are doing serious floating point work, unfortunately you need to
> > understand something about rounding errors, which are a tricky and
> > ever-present feature.
> 
> I learned that here.

Good lesson!  The principle of least surprise is best satisfied by not
trusting rounding errors.

-- 
Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK                          Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070

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