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> Arbitrary means the epsilon is chosen, not unbounded. This is not the commonly understood nomenclature, notwithstanding what some languages call a BigFloat.
by spacehome 11y ago
> Arbitrary means the epsilon is chosen, not unbounded.
This is not the commonly understood nomenclature, notwithstanding what some languages call a BigFloat. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrary-precision_arithmetic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrary-precision_arithmetic
In any case, it's clearly not what Rhapso intended, either, because otherwise his code snippet wouldn't exhaust memory.