Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] m68k gcl/maxima: Minor Floating point errors

2002-09-19 Thread Camm Maguire
Greetings! James Amundson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 11:09, Richard Fateman wrote: > > > for i:1 thru 60 do print ([i,is (1.0d0=1.0d0+2^(-i))]); double > > for i:1 thru 60 do print ([i,is (1.0=1.0+2^(-i))]); single > > > > for the first one, you should get i=22 for the

Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: [Maxima] m68k gcl/maxima: Minor Floating point errors

2002-09-19 Thread James Amundson
On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 11:09, Richard Fateman wrote: > I would guess that one is using single precision IEEE > floats and the other is using double precision. It could > very well be that your m68k is getting better answers. It may be the reverse; see below. > I think the CL standard allows one t