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Re: Bizarre output.
- From: Antonio Coralles <noche dot suapie at reflex dot at>
- To: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 01:33:55 +0200
- Subject: Re: Bizarre output.
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Eljay Love-Jensen wrote:
> Hi Antonio,
>
>>What value of fuzzyEpsilon is appropriate for float / long double ? I
> guess there is somkind of mathematical law in calculating it's value
> from sizeof(value_type) ... Or is 0.000001 just an educated guess ?
>
> The value for fuzzyEpsilon is dependent on the magnitude of the
> numbers involved, not on whether it is a double or float.
>
> HTH,
> --Eljay
>
Hmm, maybe i understood something wrong, but didn't corey mean that his
function
double eps(double a, double b) calculates a magnitude based epsilon from
fuzzyEpsilon and a ?
By the way, something completely differnet: What means HTH ?
antonio