Floating-point accuracy

Ed Hill ed@eh3.com
Wed Aug 9 17:31:00 GMT 2006


On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 12:21 -0500, Joel Parker wrote:
> I'm having some trouble with floating-point accuracy in g77 and gfortran,
> and I'm starting to think I'm missing something obvious.

Please try:

      N1 = 2453957.09236D0
      N2 = 2415020.0D0
      N3 = 36525.0D0

and see if that helps.  :-)

Ed

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