On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:03:32AM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: [...] | But this is all quite irrelevant to the original question, the point of | which was, I think, missed by Dimitri Maziuk. Let's back off here and | restate the original problem, which was: [...] | You (dman) seem to be following Dimitri in not dealing with the real | question, instead drifting off into what seems to me to be a completely | irrelevant discussion of floating-point precision. Nobody has argued | that floating-point numbers can represent all rational numbers exactly. | No one has advocated using equality tests to compare the results of | floating-point calculations. So I think you're attacking a straw man by | raising these issues.
Well, I missed the beginning of the thread so no doubt I missed the original question :-). -D
