In article <qotk3mhx78l....@ruuvi.it.helsinki.fi>, Jussi Piitulainen <jpiit...@ling.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> I wonder why floating-point errors are not routinely discussed in > terms of ulps (units in last position). Analysis of error is a complicated topic (and is much older than digital computers). These sorts of things come up in the real world, too. For example, let's say I have two stakes driven into the ground 1000 feet apart. One of them is near me and is my measurement datum. I want to drive a third stake which is 1001 feet away from the datum. Do I measure 1 foot from the second stake, or do I take out my super-long tape measure and measure 1001 feet from the datum? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
