Re: Rescale
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg65443] Re: Rescale
- From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
- Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 05:39:05 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On 3/31/06 at 6:09 AM, koopman at sfu.ca (Ray Koopman) wrote:
>InputForm@{#,Rescale@#}&@Sort@Table[Random[],{3}]
>{{0.1495146427525807, 0.9032356867418898, 0.9803938132050517},
>{2.7755575615628914*^-17, 0.9071367664432557, 1.0000000000000002}}
>What is Rescale doing, that it does not always give N@0 and N@1 for
>the first and last elements?
I would *guess* it is doing exactly as advertised using floating point arithmetic and what you are seeing for some inputs is due to the usual vagaries of floating point arithmetic.
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