Saagar Jha
(replying to Félix)
@fay59 No see this exactly describes what I am talking about. The guarantees are lax here which is why the results are allowed to differ in a specified way. The answer is not because “oh floating point math is wishy-washy you can only really rely on the first 3-4 decimal places”
Saagar Jha
(replying to Saagar Jha)
@fay59 Actual quotes here
> If you tested maybe 4 or 5 digits of precision, ok. But all 15 / 17 digits? That is bound to fail, if not guaranteed to fail.
> IEEE-745 double precision binary floating point provides no more than 15 decimal significant digits of precision.
> If you tested maybe 4 or 5 digits of precision, ok. But all 15 / 17 digits? That is bound to fail, if not guaranteed to fail.
> IEEE-745 double precision binary floating point provides no more than 15 decimal significant digits of precision.