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Re: Bizarre output.


Yes, I'm sorry if this was confusing, it was the only method I had and
works well.

This is the same as an evaluation within a fuzzyEpsilon error period,
except that error period changes according to the precision of the
numbers being evaluated.

corey


On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 01:33:55 +0200, Antonio Coralles
<noche.suapie@reflex.at> wrote:
> 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
>


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