Re: inconsistency with Inequality testing and Floor
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- Subject: [mg60178] Re: inconsistency with Inequality testing and Floor
- From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 01:26:49 -0400 (EDT)
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In article <dfbf58$iom$1 at smc.vnet.net>, Andrzej Kozlowski <andrzej at akikoz.net> wrote: > And by the way, while > writing a review of Hans Stetter's "Numerical Polynomial Algebra", I > have found that Mathematica's significance arithmetic with its > automatic precision tracking performs performs very well when > combined with backward error based techniques that Stetter uses; in > fact quite a lot better than the other well known systems he was > using. I could even send you some examples of Matheamtica's > superiority but in view of the countless disputes on this topic that > you have initiated and that never get anywhere, I think it would be > pointless. If you are interested you can read my review when it > appears in Math Reviews as actually discusses Mathematica's numerics. This review may be of interest to readers of The Mathematica Journal. Perhaps a short discussion of this topic should appear in TMJ? Cheers, Paul _______________________________________________________________________ Paul Abbott Phone: 61 8 6488 2734 School of Physics, M013 Fax: +61 8 6488 1014 The University of Western Australia (CRICOS Provider No 00126G) AUSTRALIA http://physics.uwa.edu.au/~paul
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- Re: inconsistency with Inequality testing and Floor
- From: "Richard J. Fateman" <fateman@eecs.berkeley.edu>
- Re: inconsistency with Inequality testing and Floor