On 2009-06-26 02:17, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
Robert Kern wrote:
I wish people would stop representing decimal floating point arithmetic as
"more accurate" than binary floating point arithmetic.
Those that failed, learned. You only see those that haven't learnt yet.
Dialog between two teachers:
T1: Oh those pupils, I told them hundred times! when will they learn?
T2: They did, but there's always new pupils.
Unfortunately, I keep seeing people who claim to be old hands at floating point
making these unlearned remarks. I have no issue with neophytes like the OP
expecting different results and asking questions. It is those who answer them
with an air of authority that need to take a greater responsibility for knowing
what they are talking about. I lament the teachers, not the pupils.
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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