On Wed, 13 Nov 2024, Roger Heflin wrote:

On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 4:25?PM Patrick Dupre <pdu...@gmx.com> wrote:


How different are the values?      How many significant figures match?  0? 5?
relatve difference: 2.7e-8
"noise" ~ 1e-35
values < 2e-23


What significant figure is it of the result?   Heavy calculations are
sensitive to the precision of the underlying cpu calculations and one
cpu may pick a different underlying precision to use internally.   Ie

Not if both CPUs are supposed to be using IEEE 64-bit floating point.
The 80-bit double extended registers go mostly unused lately.
Their use in double precision arithmetic is supposed to be discoverable:
sizeof(double) != sizeof(double_t)

if one machine takes say 3 clock cycles to do a single or a double
then you might as well use a double internally and if the other
machine takes say 3 for a single and 6 for a double then on that
machine the compiler optimization will choose the single (to be
faster) and both may produce a different answer.

Not if both CPUs are supposed to be using IEEE 32-bit floating point.
Again, discoverable: sizeof(float) != sizeof(float_t).

If rounding is indeed the issue,
'tis most likely in the libraries, e.g.,
one evaluates (x+y)+z and the other (x+z)+y .
One might use exp(x)-1 and the other expm1(x) or expl(x)-1 .

OP might swap libraries to test the hypothesis.

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