On Nov 9, 2007 11:30 AM, Brent Yorgey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > More generally, this is due to the fact that floating-point numbers can only > have finite precision
This popped up on reddit recently: http://blogs.sun.com/jag/entry/transcendental_meditation . Interestingly, AMD did apparently figure out how to reduce modulo 2*pi much more accurately but doing the right thing broke too many applications. So it's not quite as simple as "floating-point numbers can only have finite precision", the errors are worse than they need to be. (But I haven't read the K5 paper and so this information is all second hand.) -- Dan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
