tenterl...@gmail.com said: > I come from a scientific background, where we compare results somewhat as > analog values. If the test result is off the expected by 1000%, that's bad. > If it's off 1%, better. If the error is .00001%, probably within achievable > accuracy.
There is a difference between running the same experiment again to get new data and running new software on old data. Are the specs and implementation for IEEE floating point tight enough so that I should get the exact same result if I run a test on a different CPU chip? Or is there room for things like holding extra bits in temporary results so the bottom bits might be different due to round off or such? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
