[ANSI-Smalltalk] Agenda items...
Paolo Bonzini
paolo.bonzini at lu.unisi.ch
Tue Nov 13 09:08:31 GMT 2007
Andres Valloud wrote:
> I replied from my home account and thus I think the message went to the
> bit bucket... but I meant to say this is fantastic. I added an item to
> the meta, and also created the errata page mentioning two off by one
> problems in the float protocol.
Could you be more specific? I only knew of the one in #epsilon.
st> 2.0d timesTwoPower: 1 - FloatD precision "ANSI definition"
0.0000000000000004440892098500627
st> FloatD epsilon "dividing by two..."
0.0000000000000002220446049250313
st> (1.0d + FloatD epsilon) = 1.0d "...is still ok"
false
Paolo
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