Re: Re: Re: Bug in 5.1??
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- Subject: [mg54568] Re: [mg54528] Re: [mg54469] Re: Bug in 5.1??
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akozlowski at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 03:11:38 -0500 (EST)
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Your response is very curious. Who told you you are not supposed to
complain? I suggested you file a bug report. If you do not file one
presumably you have a reason?? Is the reason that (you imagine) I told
you not to complain? I am flattered to see that I now wield this sort
of authority but really I do not seek it. I only told you that in the
past people wrote write about such issues and, in the old days, someone
(usually David Withoff) would respond. But even he never gave, as far
as I can recall, a clear reason why this happens, only a vague one
like the one I have given: strange things happen if you use
significance arithmetic at low precision,and try making comparisons
like
10`2 ==0
True
or
100`2==0
True
or whatever. Don't do it.
So now please do file a bug report and demand an explanation. I will be
very interested to read the response, if you get one of course. After
all, I am just another user and have no better access to WRI's thinking
than you have.
Andrzej Kozlowski
On 22 Feb 2005, at 10:23, DrBob wrote:
> It doesn't make sense to ANYBODY, as far as I can tell.
>
> But we're not supposed to complain, because somebody ALREADY
> complained (some time or another).
>
> Bobby
>
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 03:44:38 -0500 (EST), Dana DeLouis
> <delouis at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>> Seems to me that the loss of precision returns an "Interval", which
>> is still
>> greater than zero. It looks like the cutoff between True & False is
>> a hair
>> above -1, which doesn't make sense to me either.
>>
>> Interval[N[5, 2]]
>> Interval[{4.9, 5.1}]
>>
>> N[5, 2] > -1
>> True
>>
>> N[5, 2] > -1 + $MachineEpsilon
>> False
>>
>
>
>
> --
> DrBob at bigfoot.com
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>
>
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- Re: Bug in 5.1??
- From: "Dana DeLouis" <delouis@bellsouth.net>
- Re: Re: Bug in 5.1??
- From: DrBob <drbob@bigfoot.com>
- Re: Bug in 5.1??