Fourth Draft "Unsafe fp optimizations" project description.

Gabriel Dos Reis gdr@codesourcery.com
Sun Aug 12 07:45:00 GMT 2001


Stephen L Moshier <moshier@mediaone.net> writes:

| The loss of accuracy is due to subtractive cancellation, an error source
| that your document does not mention. 

Actually on x86, sin(x) just returns x for "large" values of x.

-- Gaby



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