Hi Emmanuel, On 2019-10-24, Emmanuel Charpentier <emanuel.charpent...@gmail.com> wrote: > Writing *correctly* this decomposition is, IIRC, a numerical analysis > bitch... You are, IIRC, led to compute differences of large products, where > underflows can easily slip into... Definitely not an amateur's problem. > > While I agree in principle with Simon, actually *doing* it isn't easy.
Indeed. I had teaching in mind when I suggested to have an option to force "numerically evil" methods, as the students tend to not believe that a method they learned in the first year can be problematic. Best regards, Simon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/qot3uj%242i8m%241%40blaine.gmane.org.
