Thanks, everyone, for the great input. I will continue to work thru the background readings and recommendations you graciously supplied and go from there.
Best regards, - Don On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 07:04, Bruce O'Neel <bruce.on...@pckswarms.ch> wrote: > HI, > > I would upgrade that "a good read" to a critical read if you do anything > with floating point. Floating point numbers are not real numbers but > rather a small subset, and, have all kinds of funny properties. But we use > them just like real numbers and that's what catches us out. > > cheers > > bruce > > > > > *14 January 2020 03:05 Pierce Ng <pie...@samadhiweb.com > <pie...@samadhiweb.com>> wrote:* > > On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 02:13:00PM -0600, Donald Howard wrote: > > "What are other suggestions, workarounds or approaches community has?" > > This is a good read on the subject: > > https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html > > Title is "What every computer scientist should know about floating point > arithmetic". > > Pierce > > >
