Le 17/08/2012 05:37, Sébastien Brisard a écrit : > Hi Gilles, >> >> Please have a look at MATH-843: >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-843 >> >> As indicated there, I think that the current documentation is clear enough. >> I don't know how to test the assertion of the reporter. >> In the absence of further comment, I'll resolve the issue as is. >> > I agree with you 2^-53 is clear enough if you know a little bit what > double precision is. If you don't, you probably won't understand any > of the points which are discussed in MATH-843. But Dominik is right, > so we could probably add this link to wikipedia [1]. I can do it if > you want.
You can both add the single sentence from the user: "This value can be defined as an upper bound on the relative error due to rounding real numbers to double floating-point numbers" and put the link to the reference. Luc > Best regards, > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_epsilon > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
