GCC beaten by ICC in stupid trig test!

[Toon Moene]

Laurent GUERBY wrote:

> All Monte Carlo based algorithms are also likely to be in
> the -ffast-math category. You're happy with 3-4 digits
> of "accuracy" thanks to 1/sqrt(n) convergence :).

Another example is all computation where reducing the continuous physics 
to discrete mathematics already introduced truncation errors larger than 
any floating point rounding error at 24 bit mantissa precision.

[ It's only five centuries ago that people who were able to predict
   the weather were burnt on the stake as witches - do not be so foolish
   to repeat history here ]

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