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Re: question about arithmetic
- To: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <misiek at pld dot ORG dot PL>
- Subject: Re: question about arithmetic
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 02 Mar 2001 10:56:29 -0300
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <20010302142727.A27648@ikar.t17.ds.pwr.wroc.pl>
On Mar 2, 2001, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <misiek@pld.ORG.PL> wrote:
> what's is going on here? :-)
Different rounding errors caused by the excess precision used
internally in the x86 FPU.
You may want to have a look at
http://www.validgh.com/goldberg/paper.ps
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