Re: High precision floating point considered hazardous
- To: mathgroup at yoda.ncsa.uiuc.edu
- Subject: Re: High precision floating point considered hazardous
- From: uunet!sun.udel.edu.Mon.Apr.30.11:15:11.1990!jack
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 90 12:18:43 -0500
I tried this problem....
a = 1.1111111111111111
Do[a=2a-a,{55}]
on versions 1.1 and 1.2. I did obtain 0 on version 1.2, but there was no
error on 1.1..i.e., I did not obtain 0! Seems like a bug in version 1.2.